Posted by MoparNorm on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 at 9:39PM :
In Reply to: ShAkInG in VA posted by Ken C. on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 at 5:24PM :
Ken!
Enjoy the ride! Little 4.5's don't hardly get reported out here. A 5.5 will get your attention, and a 6.5 will start the juices flowing!
Note; the Richter Scale is logrythmic, each full 1.0, from say 5.5 to 6.5 is a magnitude of 10 greater than the previous. So a 5.5 is 10 times stronger than a 4.5 and a 6.5 is 20 times stronger than that! The 1971 Symar Quake was a 7.2 or approx. 27 times stronger than the 4.5. It was a wild ride!
Hope all is well!
MN
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