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Just as a note, there's nothing special about 10 on the magnitude scale. It's not a 10/10. Theoretically, you could have a 10.5 or 11.
A 10.0 is simply 10x more intense than a 9.0, which is 10x more intense than an 8.0, and so on. But a 10.0 would be so utterly insane, it's certainly interesting to imagine. A 8.0 would be catastrophic enough. The Great 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a 7.4, for reference.
TheRarestPepe7 karma
The system didn't go off because in LA, the max intensity felt was like a 4.0-4.5. They're lowering the threshold now. This will probably result in over-alerting people, but... that's the tradeoff.
A lot of people in LA think they got hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. They didn't - Ridgecrest did. LA felt the <4.5 distant rumblings of the quake over 100 miles away, which certainly was a scary enough experience when you don't know what's going on. Also scary since, I guess normal nearby 4.5 magnitude earthquakes are over quickly, but feeling the similar intensity shaking from a large earthquake from far away can go on for like a minute.
TheRarestPepe153 karma
I have zero problems with all of the kink stuff in this thread so far but ORANGE? I don't care what color traffic lights might actually be (amber, maybe?), but those are called YELLOW LIGHTS. What in the world is wrong with you?
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