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...and nothing of value was lost.
...and nothing of value was lost.
4.4 Magnitude Quake hits Oklahoma
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4.4 is pretty minor, the rating grows exponentially, thus why the 8.8 being only 1.8 above the Haiti earthquake is roughly 1000x more powerful (though fortunately for Chile, they don't make homes out of paper maché). So exponentially speaking 4.4 is kind of a mild tremor, a few crap on your house rattling around a lil and thats bout it. 2.0 to 3.0 is rarely ever felt.
6+ is where you wana worry.
PS: The midwest gets thousands of earthquakes per day, 99.9999% of them are never felt. So ya, earthquakes are the media spotlight right now and they're gona hype the shit out of anything that was felt.
6+ is where you wana worry.
PS: The midwest gets thousands of earthquakes per day, 99.9999% of them are never felt. So ya, earthquakes are the media spotlight right now and they're gona hype the shit out of anything that was felt.
Is that a legit statement or are you being a little liberal with the numbers? Honest question, I had no idea. Sounds crazy. I mean 1000x Haiti seems like it would open the fucking Earth up and just swallow everything.
A difference of 7 to 9 is a 1000x increase. Haiti was a 7, Chile was an 8.8. So yes, that's a legitimate statement.
Yeah... it was weak... but my brother was out there and called me acting like the world was going to end.
I guess to use wikipedia (ugh)
Equivalent amount of TNT to match the seismic activity
7.0 32 megatons
8.0 1 gigaton
8.8 15.8 gigatons
9.0 32 gigatons
10 1 teraton
With Haiti though they had two main problems, the epicenter was right across port-a-prince their most populated area. Also the country being poor as fuck also means pretty shoddy construction.
Chile actually had overpasses that while remained mostly intact did collapsed from their elevated position, but they at least had a lot better supports and the earthquake was off the coast. Had the 8.8 epicenter been on land, and Chile shared the same kind of economic conditions in terms of construction ability as Haiti they'd be seriously fucked and probably exceeded Haiti's death toll within the hour.
Most of the life lost in haiti was primarily due to the buildings simply pancaking down onto the ground from little to no support.
I've heard theories that the midwest (particularly starting around yellow stone park, down to parts of missouri) would be a potential site for a "mega quake" or super volcano of some sort, either way the theory is that it would be enough seismic activity that the entire globe would feel it.
To think what happens on the surface is only like a fraction of a percent of the entire earth as a whole....
You're thinking about the Yellowstone Caldera... and yeah, some say if it ever properly blows it'll pretty much wipe out a good portion of the US and Canada, but the scientists say that's unlikely. A Spurt of Quake Activity Raises Fears in Yellowstone - TIME
hey oklahoma is hot, and ya those earthquakes are weak there was more shaking from that bombing that happened here than those earthquakes
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