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How big the earthquake really was.
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Just to even fathom something that huge. 690 miles long, and plates shifting as much as 30 feet. I mean, holy shit. If anyone is good at math, the way to detirmine intensity for earthquakes comepared to each other is such. If you have 2 quakes... X and Y. log(Iy/Ix) - log(Iy/Ix)
So for instance, if you have a quake of y = 8 and one of x =6. The difference between the two logs is 2. Then you take that log which is 2 and put it on a base 10. So 10^2 = 100. Meaning the difference between X and Y, is that Y is 100 times more intense than X.
Were losing seconds of daylight too, because the earth is wobbeling off its axis. Were gettin jipped.
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good call
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hit the rail dumbass!!
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By the way, i think the quake was somewhere in the vacinity of 9.0 +/-, just to give you perspective. In 94, there was a 6.7 and it ended up taking about 20-40 billion dollars of damage with it and killing 60 people. Just to help put things in perspective. (Thats not including the tidal wave)
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i heard on some news it was like setting off many thousands of nuclear bombs (4,000 i think it was?)
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that shits crazy
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Yeah it is insane to even try to think of how powerful the earth can be and how insignificant we really are.
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Minus the fact that were so good at polluting this place up. Thats pretty significant.
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im moving to a safer planet. later
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^ haha
i wonder when a EQ is gonna peak over 10. shit will hit the walls fosho
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there wont be any wallsfor the shit to hit^
apparently an set of islands have totally shifter from where they originally were...
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wow, you're a genious. no one EVER knew that a 8 was 10x that of a 7. and a 9.2 (alaska 1952 maybe) is 6 times bigger then a 8.6.
holy hell you're a GENIOUS.
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