The Newsroom

Earthquake Hits Kent

(April 2007)

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JH
Jonathan H
Roger Mellie posted:
Jonathan H posted:
Don't forget when comparing tremors and the news coverage and damage therein that the Richter scale is logarithmic!

...worse earthquakes happen all over the world all the time, but we rarley hear about them-- and they make the one in Kent seem tame!

Exactly. Because the Richter scale is logarithmic, it doesn't take a genius to work out that the tremor in Kent was tame!
MA
Markymark
Jonathan H posted:
Because the Richter scale is logarithmic, it doesn't take a genius to work out that the tremor in Kent


No, but that simple fact seems way beyond the comprehension of most journos
RM
Roger Mellie
Markymark posted:
Jonathan H posted:
Because the Richter scale is logarithmic, it doesn't take a genius to work out that the tremor in Kent


No, but that simple fact seems way beyond the comprehension of most journos


Yes very true Laughing Are we still all going to die from bird flu?
GI
gilsta
Roger Mellie posted:


Yes very true Laughing Are we still all going to die from bird flu?


I thought we had already?
MH
miss hellfire
Roger Mellie posted:
Jonathan H posted:
Don't forget when comparing tremors and the news coverage and damage therein that the Richter scale is logarithmic!


Correlating with proximity to London and population density of southern softies of course Wink


OI! You trying to wind me up or sumfing!
My car was jacked up with Mr. H underneath it checking out my differentials when the quake happened. For a split second it was quite scary then i remembered about the life insurance. Bloody Mother Nature got it wrong this time. Darn Her! Wink

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