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“The 2010 Chile Earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010 at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC) and lasted for about three minutes. Its magnitude was initially reported to be between 8.3 and 8.5 Mw, later revised to 8.8 Mw. It was the strongest earthquake affecting Chile since the magnitude 9.5 1960 Valdivia earthquake (the most energetic earthquake ever recorded worldwide), and is the strongest earthquake worldwide since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. It was about 500 times stronger than the recent devastating magnitude 7.0 Haitian earthquake and is tied with a 1906 Ecuadorian earthquake as the seventh strongest earthquake ever recorded.” [emphasis added]
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| Magnitude | Tons of TNT = 10( 3⁄2M - 3) | Example of Explosive Energy |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | 0.001 = 1.0 × 10-3 ton (metric)* | one kilogram of TNT |
| 1.0 | 0.0316227766 ≈ 0.0316 ton | a construction site blast |
| 2.0 | 1 = 1 ton | a World War II conventional bomb |
| 3.0 | 31.6227766 ≈ 31.6 tons | a Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) |
| 4.0 | 1,000 = 1 kiloton | a "small" nuke |
| 4.4 | 3,981 ≈ 3.98 kilotons | 2010 "Pico Rivera" earthquake |
| 5.0 | 31,623 ≈ 31.6 kilotons | Nagasaki atomic bomb, "Fat Man" |
| 6.0 | 1,000,000 = 1 megaton | 1994 "Double Spring Flat" earthquake |
| 6.2 | 1,995,262 ≈ 2.00 megatons | 2010 "Manila" earthquake |
| 62⁄3 | 10,000,000 = 10 megatons | "Castle Bravo" thermonuclear device |
| 6.8 | 15,848,932 ≈ 15.8 megatons | 2011 "Myanmar" earthquake |
| 6.9 | 22,387,211 ≈ 22.4 megatons | 1989 "San Francisco Bay" earthquake |
| 7.0 | 31,622,777 ≈ 31.6 megatons | 2010 "Haiti" earthquake |
| 7.1 | 44,668,359 ≈ 44.7 megatons | 2010 "Qinghai Province" earthquake |
| 7.13 | 50,000,000 = 50 megatons | "Tsar Bomba" thermonuclear weapon |
| 7.2 | 63,095,734 ≈ 63.1 megatons | 2010 "Baja California" earthquake |
| 7.7 | 354,813,389 ≈ 355 megatons | 2010 "Sumatra" earthquake |
| 8.0 | 1,000,000,000 = 1 gigaton | 1906 "San Francisco" earthquake |
| 8.1 | 1,412,537,540 ≈ 1.41 gigatons | [Predicted] San Andreas "Big One" |
| 8.8 | 15,848,931,900 ≈ 15.8 gigatons | 2010 "Chile" earthquake |
| 8.9 | 22,387,211,400 ≈ 22.4 gigatons | 2011 "off Honshu, Japan" earthquake |
| 9.0 | 31,622,776,600 ≈ 31.6 gigatons | 1755 "Lisbon" earthquake |
| 9.1 | 44,668,359,200 ≈ 44.7 gigatons | 2004 "Indian Ocean" earthquake |
| 9.5 | 177,827,941,000 ≈ 178 gigatons | 1960 "Valdivia" earthquake |
| 10 | 1.0 × 1012 tons = 1 teraton | thankfully never recorded |
| 102⁄3 | 1.0 × 1013 tons = 10 teratons | 10% of Yucatán Event devastation |
| 111⁄3 | 1.0 × 1014 tons = 100 teratons | Yucatán Peninsula Impact Event |
| 12 | 1.0 × 1015 tons = 1 petaton | 10 × devastation of Yucatán Event |
Most of us are familiar with the concept of percent (%), which allows us to compare related values via their ratio. Although this is convenient in computation, it does mask the absolute difference between the values compared. In effect, we reduce the "starkness" of the distinction, derived from arithmetic subtraction, in return for the computational convenience from division.
In an analogous fashion, a vastly greater masking of the starkness of the distinction between related values is achieved by logarithms:
“More informally, logarithms have the nice property that they take large numbers and whittle them down to manageable sizes. When we take the logarithm of an unwieldy number like a trillion [a number we are getting used to hearing when the Federal budget is discussed], we get a nice number like 9. [...] So the logarithm gives a specific measure of how big a number is, but it collapses huge numbers down to a reasonable size, which is very helpful in fields like cosmology, statistical mechanics, or even economics [as well as seismology].” [comments inserted]The magnitude scale for the seismic energy of earthquakes is logarithmic. This enables seismologists to compute earthquake energy in terms of magnitudes less than 10. Convenient, yes. But at a tremendous price in obscuration of intuitive comparative energy.
— From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll
Thus, a quick glance at the table above reveals that today's magnitude 8.8 Chilean earthquake was recorded as having the energy of 500 earthquakes like the recent devastating magnitude 7.0 Haitian earthquake. The latter, in turn, had the additional energy equivalent to a 10 megaton thermonuclear device when compared to the 1989 San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake. And I can personally attest that the 1989 earthquake made the earth move for me, having been in Livermore, California at the time (about 100 miles from the epicenter).
Finally, huge as today's quake may have been, the largest recorded quake, the 1960 Valdivia Earthquake, was 11 times bigger! As the punchline of an old joke (the details of which I have forgotten) goes, "Do not f*ck with Mother Nature!"
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Post #1,145 Energy of Earthquake in Logarithmic Nutshell
I am what is called a remote viewer I quess- I see things and events in dreams of the past and future and keep them in my private dream book only and have for years- however I have had a reoccurring dream about being with John ,Bobby and Ted Kennedy on expeditions to the North and south pole and during these expeditions huge earthquakes took place and tsunamis occurred that broke up the ice- I think it is related to the earthquake in Chile somehow and is something soon in coming. What does this mean ?
ReplyDeleteIt means you should beware of the Kennedys, especially on expeditions to the poles.
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