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Interrupting the mild innuendo battle for a public service announcement.

The 6.5 earthquake in northern California caused about $12 Million in damage, power outages for days, and no serious injuries or deaths. Considering the area hit, $12 Million is a fairly low amount of damage, unless it hit you personally.

Haiti had a 7.0 quake today. Reports are that it is chaos over there, very many dead and wounded and a hospital has collapsed along with many of the substandard housing built outside of the pretty areas collapsed. There will be a lot of news on it in days to come. If you can donate to the relief effort please do. Right now all those old but serviceable clothes you know you are never going to wear again can go to good use.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100113/ap_ ... earthquake

I now return you to your regularly scheduled derailed to silly thread.

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I heard on the news that part of the Presidential Palace (or whatever it's called) had collapsed.

The 6.5 in NoCal was centered pretty far off the coast. and 7.0 is a considerably more powerful earthquake than 6.5 right?

Was the Haiti quake a direct hit? or was it centered off island or deep in the ocean?

Edit: I just read that it was centered 10mi west of Port-au-Prince, which is actually on the island. It didn't say how deep it was.

Edit2: Similar map from the same site as the OP

Pretty much a direct hit on Port au Prince



Edit3: Depth was 10km (6.2 miles)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 10rja6.php

Yes Midgen, the 6.5 quake is the equivalent of a 5.6 megaton blast. It happened 30+ miles out to sea at a depth of around 15 miles.

The 7.0 was equivalent to a 32 megaton blast, 6.2 miles right under Port-au-Prince.

The Loma Prieta quake, the one where baseball saved the lives of an incredible number of people, the one where bay bridge section collapsed and the multi-story freeway section known as the Cypress structure pancaked and killed 42 people, that was a 6.9. Its epi-center was over 50 miles away from San Francisco and Oakland.

If you pray, remember Haiti's people in your prayers tonight, please.

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the one that hit Haiti, while tragic is just Atlantis trying to resurface....

and holy Christ on a unicycle... a 6.5 is only a few megatons while only .5 difference is over 30 megatons.... how the hell does that scale rate? Exponentially?

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The way the Richter Scale works (logarithmic) is that for each whole number (i.e. 4.5 to 5.5) that's an increase of 31.6 times the energy.

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Hm. My cousin's grandfather lives in Haiti and he's the only one they can't get a hold of there. It really has her worried. Hope things turn out good for them.

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Places with frequent earthquakes tend to have less intense earthquakes. Pressure is released in smaller bits.

I plan on visiting Otisberg.

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