Popular and Trending Ideas: TIL that despite being logarithmic and technically going to infinity, the Richter scale is inaccurate for magnitudes 7+, and can rank two earthquakes that are off by a factor of 30 as the same magnitude, leading to lots of "magnitude 7" earthquakes, when actual energy released varies greatly.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

TIL that despite being logarithmic and technically going to infinity, the Richter scale is inaccurate for magnitudes 7+, and can rank two earthquakes that are off by a factor of 30 as the same magnitude, leading to lots of "magnitude 7" earthquakes, when actual energy released varies greatly.

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