Tsunami in Japan

[doodab]

A banker, a Daily Mail reader, and an immigrant are sitting at a table sharing a plate of 12 biscuits.

The banker takes 11 of them and then whispers to the Daily Mail reader "Watch out for that immigrant - he wants your biscuit!"

Edit: although clearly this earthquake is no laughing matter, and not just for the Japanese looking at that wave. Holy tulip!

[MrMark]

Sell, sell, sell!



A banker, a Daily Mail reader, and an immigrant are sitting at a table sharing a plate of 12 biscuits.

The banker takes 11 of them and then whispers to the Daily Mail reader "Watch out for that immigrant - he wants your biscuit!"

Good one!

you didn't steal it from elsewhere I hope...

This takes the biscuit! Meme warfare at its best… «

[DimPrawn]

Good one!

you didn't steal it from elsewhere I hope...

This takes the biscuit! Meme warfare at its best… «

I adapted it slightly.

God forbid anyone were ever to repeat a joke they heard!

[TimberWolf]

God forbid anyone were ever to repeat a joke they heard!

I heard a joke once, however I am not at liberty to repeat it.

[TimberWolf]

New Zealand Earthquake 2011 was a magnitude 6.3

Sendai earthquake, Japan 2011 magnitude 8.9

Difference = 8.9 - 6.3 = 2.6

Power (shaking about amplitude) ratio = 10^2.6 = 400 times.

Energy (destructive) potential ratio = (10^2.6)^3/2 = 8000 times.

A bit bigger then.

[d000hg]

8.8 reported now. But yikes. I only found out because Google.com has it on their homepage as an announcement.

Does it make me a total scumbag I hope they get better footage than of the tsunami a few years back? Part of me simply wants to watch awestruck at HD video of what nature can do.
I also want to see video of buildings surviving a huge quake, to show how impressive the engineering is.

[Mich the Tester]

New Zealand Earthquake 2011 was a magnitude 6.3.

Sendai earthquake, Japan 2011 magnitude 8.9

Difference = 8.9 - 6.3 = 2.6

Power (shaking about amplitude) ratio = 10^2.6 = 400 times.

Energy (destructive) potential ratio = (10^2.6)^3/2 = 8000 times.

A bit bigger then.

Yep; many people don't realise tht the richter scale is a logarithmic scale.

Perhaps a seperate scale is needed to describe earthquakes in layman´s terms.

[DimPrawn]

8.8 reported now. But yikes. I only found out because Google.com has it on their homepage as an announcement.

Does it make me a total scumbag I hope they get better footage than of the tsunami a few years back? Part of me simply wants to watch awestruck at HD video of what nature can do.
I also want to see video of buildings surviving a huge quake, to show how impressive the engineering is.

Could be fun!

[TimberWolf]

Yep; many people don't realise tht the richter scale is a logarithmic scale.

Perhaps a seperate scale is needed to describe earthquakes in layman´s terms.

It also means you can have 'earthquakes' with a negative Richter number. Wow, that was a -1! Did the earth move for you dear.

[EternalOptimist]

Yep; many people don't realise tht the richter scale is a logarithmic scale.

Perhaps a seperate scale is needed to describe earthquakes in layman´s terms.

there are other confusing factors, like the depth , duration and aftershocks.

the best measure is probably the effect on the currency afterall