CNN keep dishing out bad information...
Pacific under tsunami threat after massive 8.8 quake strikes Chile - CNN.com
Pacific under tsunami threat after massive 8.8 quake strikes Chile
February 27, 2010 7:37 a.m. EST
"That quake was magnitude 7.0. The Chilean quake, at magnitude 8.8, was a thousand times stronger --
an earthquake displaces 64 times more energy for each additional point on the magnitude scale."
They must have some kind of love affair with the number 64... On screen meteorologist first said the Chili quake was a 8.8, which , and an 8.0 is 32 times stronger.. so an 8.8 , close to 9.0 would be almost 64 times stronger...
Now they post the number that it's 64 times stronger, per point on the scale...it's not, it's 32 times per point...
Good thing CNN doesn't have a nuclear physics department where they build A bombs...
things go bad real fast if you get your calculations wrong with those kind of things.