| karora | evening all | 01:53 |
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| ojwb | hi karora | 01:54 |
| ajmitch | yay, friday afternoon | 03:45 |
| ojwb | japan seems be be trying to upstage us with a magnitude 8.8 quake | 06:43 |
| ojwb | or maybe 7.9 | 06:43 |
| Atamira | i think they win that one | 06:56 |
| Atamira | they even lost more people | 06:56 |
| ojwb | oh dear | 06:58 |
| ojwb | a friend who's in kyoto currently said it was strong there and that's a long way from the quake | 06:58 |
| Hoggs | 7.2 | 07:19 |
| Hoggs | waitno | 07:20 |
| Hoggs | 8.9! | 07:20 |
| ojwb | 7.2 was just one of the aftershocks | 07:21 |
| ojwb | it's something like the 5th largest recorded quake | 07:21 |
| lifeless | 8.8 | 07:26 |
| lifeless | 1000 times stronger than the 6.3 that damaged chch badly | 07:26 |
| G | what is happening to the pacific? | 08:25 |
| G | in the last ~10 years: boxing day tsunami, Chile Quake, Chch earthquake (Sept), Queensland Floods, Chch Earthquake (Feb), Japan Quake/Tsunami, and a lot of other stuff I haven't thought about | 08:27 |
| G | Hoggs: btw, it seems like it could be anything between 7.9 & 8.9, CNN had a shot up with 3 different figures | 08:28 |
| Hoggs | Container ship just chilling in the city | 08:30 |
| G | hmmm Civil Defence site brought down as a result | 08:36 |
| lifeless | also richter vs moment scale | 09:44 |
| lifeless | the 7.9 was moment scale I believe, so it could be both M7.9 and R8.9 | 09:44 |
| ojwb | isn't 8.8 more like 300 times stronger than 6.3? | 09:46 |
| ojwb | still insane of course... | 09:46 |
| lifeless | ojwb: 1000 times | 09:47 |
| ojwb | isn't it a log 10 scale? | 09:47 |
| lifeless | ojwb: (10^2.5)^3/2 | 09:47 |
| lifeless | ojwb: richter is log 10 but it measures needle movement on a seismograph not energy | 09:47 |
| ojwb | oh, in energy | 09:47 |
| G | lifeless: ahhh right yeah, forgot abotu M vs R | 11:02 |
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