Quote: The death toll in eight nations in southern Asia — and as far west as Somalia, on the African coast, where nine people were reported lost — steadily increased as authorities sorted out a far-flung disaster caused by Sunday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake, strongest in 40 years.
One more jump and it'll be the most powerful in, like, ever.
I wonder if it's because they really keep changing their estimates based on the new data, or if this is just sensationalism at work.
Quote: whomod said: Now living in California, where even a 5. earthquake isn't dire enough to rouse us from bed, I can't even begin to imagine a 9 pointer.
Isn't the Richter scale logarithmic? A jump of one means ten times the magnitude, right?
