Re: All topics unimportant enough to not create a thread for
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:38 am
So, like I do EVERY night before I have to work early in the morning, I stay up for hours WASTING TIME on the internet.
Usually reading stupid things for long periods of time.
Anyway, this time I was reading about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the Richter Scale.
Found this nice little bit of info:
The 1960 Chile earthquake was 9.5 - that's the strongest earthquake ever recorded.
The asteroid/comet/whatever impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and made the Chicxulub Crater would have been 12.55.
There was a starquake (it's what you think it is. A large part of a star shakes violently and adjusts itself, like an earthquake) on the magnetar (a type of neutron star) SGR 1806-20 and would have been a 32.0. If the star had been within 10 light years of the solar system, it would have caused mass-extinction on earth with the material it ejected.
A 10.0 quake is defined as "total devastation". A 10.0 quake has never been actually recorded.
But 9.5 was pretty daisies close.
Anyway, I just thought this stuff was interesting so I posted it. BED TIME.
Also do we have an interesting shit thread?
Usually reading stupid things for long periods of time.
Anyway, this time I was reading about earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the Richter Scale.
Found this nice little bit of info:
The 1960 Chile earthquake was 9.5 - that's the strongest earthquake ever recorded.
The asteroid/comet/whatever impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and made the Chicxulub Crater would have been 12.55.
There was a starquake (it's what you think it is. A large part of a star shakes violently and adjusts itself, like an earthquake) on the magnetar (a type of neutron star) SGR 1806-20 and would have been a 32.0. If the star had been within 10 light years of the solar system, it would have caused mass-extinction on earth with the material it ejected.
A 10.0 quake is defined as "total devastation". A 10.0 quake has never been actually recorded.
But 9.5 was pretty daisies close.
Anyway, I just thought this stuff was interesting so I posted it. BED TIME.
Also do we have an interesting shit thread?
