<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, give us a framework: does a 3.6 knock glasses off the table, shake the house, what? </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It depends. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/magnitude.html">http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/magnitude.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>For the lay person, it has it’s issues.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/richter-scale">https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/richter-scale</a></div><div><br></div><div>“<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Magnitude is best known from the historic <span class="topic-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Richter Scale</span> which gives local magnitude, M or M</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;">L</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, and is widely reported after earthquakes. It correlates with the amount of <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/energy-engineering" title="Learn more about Energy Engineering from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip: objects; transition: color 0.3s ease, border-bottom-color 0.3s ease; text-decoration: none;">energy</a> released at the hypocentre for medium-sized local events. (It is important to note that this scientific measure of magnitude may not relate to damage or felt intensity due to distance, depth and other </span><span id="B9780857090263500198-p495" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>factors.)”</span></div><div><br></div>This is why Shindo is a Better system for laypeople. <div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/closer-look-shindo-seismic-scale/#.XupjEiVOmEc">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/06/27/national/closer-look-shindo-seismic-scale/#.XupjEiVOmEc</a><br><br><div dir="ltr">I experienced many Shindo 1 & 2 while in Japan. They’re amusing.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 17, 2020, at 1:01 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So, give us a framework: does a 3.6 knock glasses off the table, shake the house, what? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:50 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8617535123491515342WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 17, 2020 10:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list' <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> about a 5.0<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">WOWsers we just had an earthquake.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bay Area ExIers, everybody OK? Felt like about a 5.0 to me, short duration, time 10:35 local.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK the USGS is telling me that was a lot closer and smaller than I originally estimated. I am accustomed to those being bigger and more distant, but this one had epicenter about 6 km from here, about a 3.6 magnitude.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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