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Originally posted by johny
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Originally posted by Choli
it had 8.9 degrees in the ritcher scale
richter scale is from 0 to 9..
that's not exactly true. That scale measures the energy of the earthquake using logarithms *; that means that the more energy an earthquake has, the higher degrees in that scale, with no limit. However, 9 degrees is quite a lot and it's "nearly impossible" to have an eathquake so big.
* -> ie: each point more in that scale means an earthquake with 10 times more energy.
btw, i've heard on the radio a couple of hours ago that there are already 25000 deaths