Dynamic Planet B/C

[soobsession]

you know, I have been noticing that over the last couple of weeks (if not months), earthquakes have been striking the globe at relatively high magnitudes:
for ex.: Haiti earthquake, Chile earthquake Cuba earthquake etc.

ya. we got tested on that too a couple days before, i was watching CBS when they did a report on the chilean earthquake, and i (instinctively) took notes. i was so ready for that one

[kp9ssa]

what was the magnitude of the chile and japan earthquakes

[sciolykid101]

what was the magnitude of the chile and japan earthquakes

I believe Chile was around 10.4.

[Big_Platypus]

what was the magnitude of the chile and japan earthquakes

I believe Chile was around 10.4.

No...it definitely was not. Unless if you are using a different scale, because 10+ has never been recorded to my knowledge, and also I am pretty sure that it was 8.8. I do not know about Japan...

[kp9ssa]

on one site it said the magnitude of the Japan earthquake was 6.8 but on another site, it sed the magnitude was 7.0

also one site sed the magnitude of the chile earthquake was 9.5, but on another site, it sed the magnitude was 8.8

[Celeste]

I also read that there was an earthquake last week in southern California. The planet seems to have been quite dynamic recently!

[smarticle13]

it is a sign that the end of the world is near!

[AlphaTauri]

on one site it said the magnitude of the Japan earthquake was 6.8 but on another site, it sed the magnitude was 7.0

also one site sed the magnitude of the chile earthquake was 9.5, but on another site, it sed the magnitude was 8.8

The Richter scale gets progressively more unreliable as the magnitudes increase, so that accounts for some of the variability...either see which magnitude comes up more often, check a reliable site like USGS, or average them.

[smarticle13]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... es_all.php
(recent earthquakes off of google)

[soobsession]

As far as I'm concerned, the Chilean earthquake is a magnitude 8.8. There has never been a 10+ earthquake before as Big_Platypus said. Otherwise, Japan would have probably suffered from tsunamis. The furthest the Richter scale goes is up to 9.5 I think. That was the Chilean earthquake a while back... the largest earthquake ever recorded.