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Old 02-27-2010, 04:03 AM   #20
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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
The guy on CNN said it was 1000 times bigger than Haiti.
Tsunami warnings issued for almost every Southern Hemisphere country on the Pacific and north to Mexico and northwest to Japan.
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