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Strong earthquake shakes Sumatra
Topic Started: Apr 10 2005, 05:48 PM (246 Views)
ARMS
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An earthquake estimated at 6.7-magnitude has hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which was so badly hit in recent quakes.

It seems that area is becoming more active :unsure:

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Gogf
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Remember the richter scale works so that an 8.0 is tens times as powerful as a 7.0, so this earthquake was about 1/500 as powerful as the one that caused the tsunami in December.
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Locke
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I believe this was expected to an extent. I remember after the last one, they mentioned that there would be 'aftershocks' of this magnitude in the coming weeks. I would wager a guess that this is one of the ones they were discussing.

It's shame that these people keep getting hit like this though. :no:
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dbzlotrfan
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the richter was scraped a few years ago. found to have flaws in it I think. earthquakes are mesaured by something else now (not via the richter scale).


let me see if I can find the book where I read that.
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Zero Resistance-ZNS
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I knew it. It was gonna be scraped. it was too simple. It was just like:

Earthquake: Rate me from 1-10!!
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dbzlotrfan
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LockeTZ
April 10, 2005 04:54 PM
I believe this was expected to an extent. I remember after the last one, they mentioned that there would be 'aftershocks' of this magnitude in the coming weeks. I would wager a guess that this is one of the ones they were discussing.

It's shame that these people keep getting hit like this though. :no:

yes. but that's one reason sciencetists are working on buildings that are more resistent to earthquakes even 9/10s (on the richter if it was still used).

look on 'www.howstuffworks.com' serch for 'smart-buildings'.
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Zero Resistance-ZNS
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I read that people are starting as seismic test on builings and houses
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