Posted by Geologist [174.96.190.192] on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 13:54:53 :
In Reply to: You have got to be kidding... posted by MoparNorm [99.10.160.35] on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:48:03 :
Not to be too technical but that is not right. Yes, the scale is logarithmic. That being said, 6.0 is NOT 10 times larger than 5.9. 6.0 is ten times larger than 5.0 5.9 on a log scale is roughly 794000 while 6.0 is 1,000,000 Just wanting to be accurate here
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