Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anything less than a 4 doesn't make the news here (NZ), Christchurch has suffered over 8450 earthquakes since its first big one nearly a year ago! The depth of the quake and various other factors come into account, I think the Mercalli Scale is of more use as it measures the force at a particular location rather than at source. john -----Original Message----- When we were in Japan the first time (chaperoning the middle school exchange students), the first day we were in a museum in Toyko. A small quake must have hit, no more than 2.something. The building just shook a little.All the Californians were at least looking up to make sure that things are OK and confirmed that it is an earthquake, while the Japanese didn't even bother and carried on with whatever they were doing :-)!