Re: Experts puzzled over bizarre quakes in Spain - no buildings should have fallen, and no deaths
Posted by Anung Mwka on 5/12/2011, 10:47 pm
maybe for a 5.1 at regular depth... but 1km below? It was rated at VI ... the christchurch, which was a 6.4 @ 5km was a VIII. I think the richter scale needs to be tossed and the world starts using Peak Ground Acceleration instead. Its a million times more telling as to the power of a quake.
48
In this thread:
Experts puzzled over bizarre quakes in Spain - no buildings should have fallen, and no deaths - JAC, 5/12/2011, 9:18 pm
  • Re: Experts puzzled over bizarre quakes in Spain - no buildings should have fallen, and no deaths - Anung Mwka, 5/12/2011, 10:47 pm
< Return to the front page of the: message board | monthly archive this page is in
Post A Reply
This thread has been archived and can no longer receive replies.