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They upgraded it to 8.4 after.
by goshx 9y ago
They upgraded it to 8.4 after.
- legostormtroopr 9y agoI appreciate those kinds of quick release cycles. I'm hoping that when they upgrade to 9.0 we get some new features though.
- goshx 9y agoThey'll probably add trumpet sounds.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoEach point release just about doubles the force of the earth quake. Makes me wonder how my mom handled the Good Friday one in Anchorage, which was at 9.2.
- saagarjha 9y agoActually, it takes around 0.3 to double to power.
- bhrgunatha 9y agoUSGS (and most reports use the moment magnitude scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale : Each point is 10 ^ 1.5 (about 31) Every 2 points is 100 The Richter scale is almost never used now but that'd where the factor of 10 per point comes from.
- kalleboo 9y agoMagnitude is a pretty useless scale for the human-level impact of an earthquake (since you have to take into account location, depth, geography etc). I prefer the Shindo scale in Japan, which better informs you how people actually felt it/it affected infrastructure. Each earthquake doesn't get "one" shindo scale, you get a map of shindo readings for each location it was felt in. Then you can say "this earthquake was up to shindo X" if you want to tell somehow the worst effects of it, or "at my house it was shindo X-2" and people understand "oh so you were pretty far away huh"
- bamboozled 9y agoThat's a really bad joke.
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- flukus 9y agoI expect 9.0 will force some hardware updates.