USGS is having a presser on the quake

[nadinbrzezinski]

on KNX 1070

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. She's explained how they get the primary and final

magnitudes.

Here you go. The initial is the computers... but until they get an actual human you don't see the final wave forms.

The human takes a while.

(I knew that but I guessed this might be interesting to all of you USGS fans)

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. "get an actual human"?

How can a human being quantify magnitude?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. They train for that

I guess it is not that different than reading an EKG... the EKG involves calipers...

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Interesting. Didn't know that. nt

edit now = know typo

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I am guessing they also print it

in graph paper... and it is still going, that is the aftershocks.