I found this table revealing if specious:

Richter TNT for Seismic Example
Magnitude Energy Yield (approximate)

-1.5 6 ounces Breaking a rock on a lab table
1.0 30 pounds Large Blast at a Construction Site
1.5 320 pounds
2.0 1 ton Large Quarry or Mine Blast
2.5 4.6 tons
3.0 29 tons
3.5 73 tons
4.0 1,000 tons Small Nuclear Weapon
4.5 5,100 tons Average Tornado (total energy)
5.0 32,000 tons
5.5 80,000 tons Little Skull Mtn., NV Quake, 1992
6.0 1 million tons Double Spring Flat, NV Quake, 1994
6.5 5 million tons Northridge, CA Quake, 1994
7.0 32 million tons Hyogo-Ken Nanbu, Japan Quake, 1995;
Largest Thermonuclear Weapon
7.5 160 million tons Landers, CA Quake, 1992
8.0 1 billion tons San Francisco, CA Quake, 1906
8.5 5 billion tons Anchorage, AK Quake, 1964
9.0 32 billion tons Chilean Quake, 1960
10.0 1 trillion tons (San-Andreas type fault circling Earth)
12.0 160 trillion tons (Fault Earth in half through center,
OR Earth's daily receipt of solar
energy)

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see how
the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is probably
similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see how
the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is probably
similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that chart...

On Jul 16, 5:06 am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see how
the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is probably
similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that
chart...

You are an idiot.

Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote innews:1184637886.269836.124420@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see how
the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is probably
similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that
chart...

You are an idiot.

Gosh. What a deep and profound statement. I hope you didn't
hurt your brain cell coming up with that remark.

Of course, one cannot hurt what one does not have. So I guess
that means you can't hurt yourself thinking.

Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote innews:1184637886.269836.124420@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 16, 5:06 am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see how
the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is probably
similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that
chart...

You are an idiot.

Gosh. What a deep and profound statement. I hope you didn't
hurt your brain cell coming up with that remark.

Of course, one cannot hurt what one does not have. So I guess
that means you can't hurt yourself thinking.

On Jul 17, 8:03 am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote
innews:1184637886.269836.124420@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see
how the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is
probably similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that
chart...

You are an idiot.

Gosh. What a deep and profound statement. I hope you didn't
hurt your brain cell coming up with that remark.

Of course, one cannot hurt what one does not have. So I guess
that means you can't hurt yourself thinking.

Why do you even bother replying to me if you are no better than I?

There is a season of large quakes running at the moment, after what
has been a dearth of them. The two Japanese ones occurred
coincidentally when there was a typhoon that reached past Japan's
record books, the others are all a matter of those interesting degrees
apart from either that storm or one running in the area of Hawaii and
you think I am the fool?

They seem to circle them like some sort of a gyre if you are
interested.

That scale runs ad indefinitum with a regular increase of 2, 4, 6, 8
and you sit down with your cheesy mathematics as though it has
explained something to you of great significance.

Weather models are impossibly complex and require the finesse of
experts with decades of training, people culled from the best science
classes straight from scholl and even then can't do much better than
give a rough estimate for all the tickling the runs get.

Vulcanology as a science doesn't even exist. It is like the priest-
craft of the dark ages masquerading as Christianity. People are still
poking mountains with sticks as in biblical times and they are the
best we have.

No-one is even working on a method to explain tides and you sit there
telling me I don't think?

Put me back in you kill filters please, oh brilliant one. I am not
worthy. Either that or pull your finger out,

fool!

On Jul 17, 8:03?am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote
innews:1184637886.269836.124420@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 16, 5:06 am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see
how the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is
probably similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that
chart...

You are an idiot.

Gosh. What a deep and profound statement. I hope you didn't
hurt your brain cell coming up with that remark.

Of course, one cannot hurt what one does not have. So I guess
that means you can't hurt yourself thinking.

If your original offer is still open would you care instewad to work
out the proximity of the recent spate of large magnitude earhtquakes
to the varios tropoical / extratropical storms also current at their
times.

Then one of us can apologise to the other.

Weatherlawyer <Weatherlawyer@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1184756862.593011.78190@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 17, 8:03?am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote
innews:1184637886.269836.124420@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 16, 5:06 am, Skywise <i...@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@hotmail.com> wrote

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

With all due respect to those who compiled it, it is hard to see
how the accuracy can be maintained so evenly. But then it is
probably similar to my efforts, no more than a rule of thumb.

Nope. Not a rule of thumb. It's all in the formula just above that
chart...

You are an idiot.

Gosh. What a deep and profound statement. I hope you didn't
hurt your brain cell coming up with that remark.

Of course, one cannot hurt what one does not have. So I guess
that means you can't hurt yourself thinking.

If your original offer is still open would you care instewad to work
out the proximity of the recent spate of large magnitude earhtquakes
to the varios tropoical / extratropical storms also current at their
times.

You've lost already. Quakes happen all year 'round. All I'd
have to show is a graph of the average number of quakes each
day for a year and you'll see a relatively flat line. That
tropical storms have seasons, ie only happen during certain
times of the year, proves lack of causation. Quakes happen
equally with and without storms.

To put it another way, explain all the quakes that happen
when there are no tropical storms?


Then one of us can apologise to the other.

I'm waiting.

Brian
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Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

I'm waiting.