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Earthquake in the UK

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  • #32
    Artmustang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Artmustang


    Manic Moran wrote:
    A 5.0 is pretty hefty and you'll certainly notice it. I don't believe I've been in one that large since I moved to the San Francisco area in 2000, and we're famous for them. Looking at the records, I have to go back to Sept 2004 before I find a 5.0 or greater (5.96 in this case) in Northern California. (I was in Iraq, so missed it, darnit).

    NTM


    and you wish you were there when it happened?:eek: Not me! No please, not anymore.I had enough of it.


  • #33
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    I'm living in West Kent and didn't feel anything. The gf woke at about quarter past 8, pretty much exactly the same time as the quake - doesn't know why but probably attributed it to a large lorry (we live on a busy road) at the time. From all accounts they seem quite common here (along with tornados and heatwaves!:eek: )

    4.3 is big enough but nowhere near a 5, AFAIK the Richter scale is logarithmic so a 5 would be 10 times larger than a 4. Anyway I thought that this scale was obsolete and there was a more accurate way of measuring earthquake magnitude? Any seismologists confirm?


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