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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77
a 5.5 is barely in...now an 8.7 is straight up the dirt rut!
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Iffn you are sitting right on top of as 5.5 it's a wild ride.
if you're 50 miles away it's just something you notice.
An 8.7? You'd be lucky to live through it if you were at the EC.
WE all know the richter scale is a base 10 log scale, right?
To put it in perspective, iffn I did my calcumalations right a mag. 5.5 would release the energy equivalent to 3,000 tons of TNT.
An 8.7 magnitude would release the energy equivalent of closer to 250,000,000 tons of TNT.