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Richter or Merkel ?

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Steve Brown

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Aug 15, 2022, 6:28:21 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.

SuperCalousFragileMysticPlaguedWithHalitosis

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Aug 15, 2022, 10:05:18 AM8/15/22
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On Monday, August 15, 2022 at 6:28:21 a.m. UTC-4, mail...@gmail.com wrote:
> In the film San Andreas, do we use the Richter scale or the Merkel scale to measure earthquakes?
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> We should remember this information, after all, Americans don't make films for nothing, films are also an education.

Apparently a "fun film" with many inaccurate info in this regard. See the following link on topic:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/jun/04/san-andreas-earthquake-movie-is-it-accurateif link does not work, remove the "s" in "https"

Steve Brown

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Nov 9, 2022, 8:22:31 AM11/9/22
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Sorry, that's my mistake. It's Mercalli, not Merkel
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