[01:53] <karora> evening all
[01:54] <ojwb> hi karora
[03:45] <ajmitch> yay, friday afternoon
[06:43] <ojwb> japan seems be be trying to upstage us with a magnitude 8.8 quake
[06:43] <ojwb> or maybe 7.9
[06:56] <Atamira> i think they win that one
[06:56] <Atamira> they even lost more people
[06:58] <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
[07:19] <Hoggs> 7.2
[07:20] <Hoggs> waitno
[07:20] <Hoggs> 8.9!
[07:21] <ojwb> 7.2 was just one of the aftershocks
[07:21] <ojwb> it's something like the 5th largest recorded quake
[07:26] <lifeless> 8.8
[07:26] <lifeless> 1000 times stronger than the 6.3 that damaged chch badly
[08:25] <G> what is happening to the pacific?
[08:27] <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
[08:28] <G> Hoggs: btw, it seems like it could be anything between 7.9 & 8.9, CNN had a shot up with 3 different figures
[08:30] <Hoggs> Container ship just chilling in the city
[08:36] <G> hmmm Civil Defence site brought down as a result
[09:44] <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
[09:46] <ojwb> isn't 8.8 more like 300 times stronger than 6.3?
[09:46] <ojwb> still insane of course...
[09:47] <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
[11:02] <G> lifeless: ahhh right yeah, forgot abotu M vs R