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		atlas_hugged on March 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast I saw some negative numbers which surprised me, so I looked it up. Found this for anyone else who is also curious: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-earthquake-have-negative-m...

userbinator on March 23, 2024 [–]

I correctly guessed that it was due to being a logarithmic scale, having known about dB and the like.

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