Sure, but isn't this literally just a notation convention? There's big quakes and there's little quakes. But energy is still linear. The fact that a quake re

Sure, but isn't this literally just a notation convention? There's big quakes and there's little quakes. But energy is still linear. The fact that a quake releasing 1/3 of the energy of a 6.0 is not denoted as 2.0 quake, does not mean that it isn't releasing 1/3 of the energy. I'm not a quakologist. Am I wrong?