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Old 02-27-2010, 01:40 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Acey View Post
The scale is logarithmic... so it's (10^[difference in magnitude])^1.5

Haiti was a 7.0, if this was a 8.8 then (10^1.8)^1.5 = about 500 times more energy released
Wow, and I thought my example was bad enough, that's horrible.
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