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Taiwan uses Richter magnitude, USGS uses Moment magnitude. 6.8 and 6.9 are both right, just different unit.
by daiamid 4y ago
Taiwan uses Richter magnitude, USGS uses Moment magnitude.
6.8 and 6.9 are both right, just different unit.
- graderjs 4y agoAlright, fine. Thanks for educating me. I was wondering about this quite a lot: some places, like USGS said 6.9, while some news articles said 6.8. Also, another thing: why does an earthquake often have an initial magnitude that then changes over time? Like I think the initial ping for this was a 7.2, like take a look at this prelim from USGS: https://twitter.com/USGSted/status/1571394895075500032 https://twitter.com/USGSted/status/1571394895075500032 How can it be OoM off at first?