Wht happens a earthquick scale 35.0?

Question

earth

Answer 1

a 35.0 earthquake is not possible - The scale (richter) is a scale from 1-10. A 2.0 earthquake is 10 times stronger than a 1.0 earthquake. The strongest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.6 on the richter scale on May 22, 1960 in Chile. To say that theres a 35.0 earthquake would make it 1 x 10^25 stronger, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stronger (my math may be a bit off - but its close to that) than the Chilean earthquake of 1960. It's not possible.

Answer 2

the earths core would destabilise and the planet would be unmade by the loss of gravity. in a nutshell no more sunday night football ever

Answer 3

Imagine the earth being crushed by a giant nutcracker.

Answer 4

It is a logarithmic scale that goes from minus infinity to plus infinity.  The people that say that it goes from 1 to 10 are wrong.  That being said, there cannot be an earthquake of magnitude 35.  That would correspond to the breakup of our galaxy or something like that.

Answer 5

While the Richter scale is open ended, the nature of the rocks on our planet cannot withstand such stresses. In fact, to get a 10 on the Richter scale is pretty much impossible. Because of this, the Richter scale is thought of as 1-10, but that is just convention.

Answer 6

The fact it's never happened or is it possible is one thing.

Earthquakes are on a scale of 0 - 10. There has NEVER been a 10.0 earthquake. The scale would be massive - no buildings would be left standing. Incredible fires.

Answer 7

The sudden release of accumulated pressure at tectonic plate boundary causes the creation of earthquakes. When the top layer that is crust is weaker to with hold the pressure it will give way and release the pressure then and there. There is no upper limit for Richter scale. It is open ended scale. See the chart for energy release to each Richter scale. Each one will release 31.7 time more energy than the lower one. You can not imagine more than ten in Richter scale because of various factors and construction of earth layers.

Approximate TNT (Tri nitro telecom )  Yield for Seismic Energy                    

                       Richter scale

                                   1                     30 lbs  

                                   2. 1 ton

     3. 29 ton

     4. 1000 ton

     5. 32000 ton

     6. 1 million ton

     7. 32 million ton

     8. 1 billion ton

     9. 32 billion ton

    10 1 trillion ton.