As Southern California braced for a highly unusual summer storm Sunday afternoon, residents were struck by a much more familiar phenomenon: a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey.
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The moment magnitude scale is logarithmic and 6ish is when you start usually seeing serious damage, but stuff around 5.5 can still cause landslides and fuck shit up pretty good.
Well when you figure a major catastrophic earthquake registers 8.0 or higher on the Richter scale, it is a little more than a hard rattle.
I dealt with a 1.3 here in Texas a couple of years ago, I was only 10 miles from the epicenter, my apartment shook like the building had been hit by a loaded semi. Even though it only lasted for like 1-2 mins, it was still a little rattling to the nerves. It did cause some very minor damage to the building.
I never have any idea how bad earthquakes are just by the number. Is 5 a lot? It sounds like a lot. 5 for hurricanes is a lot.
The moment magnitude scale is logarithmic and 6ish is when you start usually seeing serious damage, but stuff around 5.5 can still cause landslides and fuck shit up pretty good.
Well when you figure a major catastrophic earthquake registers 8.0 or higher on the Richter scale, it is a little more than a hard rattle.
I dealt with a 1.3 here in Texas a couple of years ago, I was only 10 miles from the epicenter, my apartment shook like the building had been hit by a loaded semi. Even though it only lasted for like 1-2 mins, it was still a little rattling to the nerves. It did cause some very minor damage to the building.
The scale goes to 10 so 5 is half way, I’d imagine it’s substantial enough to feel it.
A 10 is 30 million times as strong as a 5 and has not occurred in human history. The moment magnitude scale goes to 10.6 though.
It’d be nice to have a unified scale for these things.
Bet it’d be a real headache for the scientists that have to implement it too.