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Subject: Re: Richter or Merkel ?
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by: Steve Brown - Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:15 UTC

Le lundi 15 août 2022 à 20:37:10 UTC, Quadibloc a écrit :
> On Monday, August 15, 2022 at 2:33:59 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
> > On Monday, August 15, 2022 at 2:30:18 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 11:04:29 PM UTC-6, mail...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > > In the film San Andreas, do we use the Richter scale or the Merkel scale to measure earthquakes?
> >
> > > > We should remember this information, after all, Americans don't make films for nothing, films are also an education.
> >
> > > Most people have only heard of the Richter scale. The only thing the name Merkel
> > > suggests is a former German chancellor.
>
> > A Google search turns up no evidence of a Merkel scale for earthquakes even existing.
> >
> > However, it did produce results referring to a *Mercalli* scale for earthquakes. That name
> > rang a bell, and indeed, it's a scale based on the observed damage produced by an
> > earthquake.
> Specific to your question: I haven't seen the movie. However, the Wikipedia
> article on the movie mentions a "7.1 magnitude" and a "9.1 magnitude"
> earthquake as being events in the movie. Those numbers are consistent with
> the use of the Richter scale.
>
> John Savard

Sorry, it's Mercalli scale, not Merkel.

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