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C Moon

(12,212 posts) Sun Apr 26, 2015, 03:45 AM Apr 2015

Man. Nepal just had another 6.7 (12:41am my time in California)

Horrible!!

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Man. Nepal just had another 6.7 (12:41am my time in California) (Original Post) C Moon Apr 2015 OP

They tend to cluster like that which is unfortunate. Chan790 Apr 2015 #1

Terrible station001 Apr 2015 #2

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

1. They tend to cluster like that which is unfortunate.

Reply to C Moon (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2015, 07:32 AM

Apr 2015

Anything over 7.0 (usually anything even near it) is likely to have multiple 5.0+ pre- and/or after-shocks. (The Richter scale is a base-10 logarithmic scale meaning that a 6.7 is slightly less than 1/10 the amplitude of a 7.8.)

Worse, because the major earthquake tends to destabilize structures and foundations...aftershocks are often more deadly and destructive than the major earthquake of the tremor cluster.

station001

(50 posts)

2. Terrible

Reply to Chan790 (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 03:28 AM

Apr 2015

Hopefully things settle down there soon. I can only imagine how long it will take them to recover from these.

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