“It’s sweet but never has salt
Made of dough not malt!
You can have a bite for ones sake!
Chocolate or carrot!? Yup it’s a cake!”
This is the scale which measures how much you can be shaken!
Shaken yet!
Well I still remember when we were in a lesser known place in Assam called Missamari!
One fine day or rather night; we were sleeping and suddenly the rock hard and steady metal cupboard which is so typical of an army house started to shake like it was suffering from a seizure!
My dad who was waken up by all of us; simply told that it’s just a mild shake! Nothing to worry about! Just sleep!
Only in the morning we got to know that the whole colony had actually come out for a while since it was actually a major earthquake!
It was ok since if we hear of a major quake in the news then rest assured it will always be major. It’s when the almighty earth tells you that nature is the strongest!
Of course when reporting about any quake you mention Richter!
So Richter magnitude scale and Richter’s magnitude scale – is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter and Beno Gutenberg.
Since it’s a log scale, an earthquake measuring 5.0 releases 31 times more energy than an earthquake measuring 4.0! But this is not an actual scale! In fact the original scale did not even catch magnitude of less than 4.5!
So now a modern method of measuring is used but still it is reported as Richter scale since that’s more familiar!
Even when there are changes no one can separate Richter from earthquakes because he earnestly made the effort!
Earnestly making effort and succeeding was also the hallmark of actor Shobhan Babu!
Now forget about shake and have a break!
Shubh Ratri!
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