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Steve Brown

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Aug 15, 2022, 4:47:15 AM8/15/22
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In the film San Andreas, do we use the Richter scale or the Merkel scale to measure earthquakes?

We should remember this information, after all, Americans don't make films for nothing, films are also an education.

Jasen Betts

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Aug 15, 2022, 8:00:42 AM8/15/22
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On 2022-08-15, Steve Brown <mail...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the film San Andreas, do we use the Richter scale or the Merkel scale to measure earthquakes?

Definately not Merkel, but can't say Ricter ve Mercalli.

> We should remember this information, after all, Americans don't make films for nothing, films are also an education.

Ricther mesures total energy and is interesting to seismologists,
Mercalli measures surface effects and is insteresting to civil
engineers.

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Jasen.
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