http://laist.com/2008/04/18/earthquake_but.php All comments for Earthquake! But Not in LA, 5.2 Strikes Illinois and Beyond en-us 2008 la_jeremy Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jeremy.oberstein@gmail.com jeremy.oberstein@gmail.com 60 http://laist.com/2008/04/18/earthquake_but.php#comment-1341790 http://laist.com/2008/04/18/earthquake_but.php#comment-1341790 Comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:54:37 -0800 <p>The New Madrid zone has never experienced multiple 9s and 10s on the Richter scale(or the Moment Magnitude scale for that matter). Maybe on the Mercalli Intensity Scale, but not the Richter scale. Yes, in the early 1800's New Madrid was rocking and rolling with a series of large quakes, but you are overstating the size of these earthquakes by 1 and 2 orders of magnitude respectivly, since the Richter scale is a base-10 log scale.</p>