skippy the bush kangaroo: no perfect 10 olympic score

Monday, May 12, 2008

no perfect 10 olympic score

but 7.8 is too big a score for an earthquake.

the chinese authorities have launched a major rescue operation in sichuan province, after it was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit the south-west of the country in 30 years. more than 7,600 people are feared dead, while many thousands more may be buried beneath collapsed buildings or injured, state media have reported. - bbc

*update* the temblor has been upgraded to 7.9 the death toll nears 9,000.

Labels: china, earthquake

posted by Cookie Jill at 8:21 AM |

1 Comments:

That's bad: the deadly quake in Armenia some years back was likely only about a 6 or 7. A "perfect 10" would annihilate everything near its epicentre. Much beyond 10, & everyone on the planet would feel it.

Anything over 4 or 5 is prone to cause damage - but 7.8 is truly deadly, since in the logorithmic Richter Scale a 3 is ten times more powerful than a 2.

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