Most of us who live in Canada have never experienced a catastrophic earthquake. Thus it can be difficult to get a sense of the enormity.
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Logarithmic scales are not commonly used by most of us, so here is a general idea of what that means to help demonstrate how quickly logarithmic scales increase.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.If the speed of a car was measured in a logarithmic scale with a factor of 2, then a speed of 1.0 might be 2 km/h, the corresponding speed of 2.0 would be 4 km/h, 3.0 would be 8 km/h. A speed of 20.0 would be 1,048,567 km/h, almost 1,000 times the speed of sound.
A 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti resulted in somewhere between 100,000 and 316,000 deaths , and effectively caused damage to the country that was equal to, or greater than, its entire GDP.However, magnitude is not all that matters when it comes to the loss of life in an earthquake. So does the population density where the earthquake occurs.
When considering population density in the aftermath of an earthquake, understanding what area has been affected is important. Estimates put the affected population of the Turkey/Syria earthquake at more than 13.5 million people and it is very possible this is an underestimation as it does not include refugees fleeing Syria.Article content
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