When I first learned about the Richter Scale I didn't know about logarithms so I thought that it was just linear and wondered why you could barely feel a 4.0 earthquake but an 8.0 could devastate whole cities if it was only twice as big!
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you didn't eat your crust on the bread, there would be an earthquake.Anon
- When I was around 4 or 5 I was convinced that you would weigh less if you sucked in your stomach on the scale.— S
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- I used to believe that when there was an earthquake, rocks would fall from the sky.— Nai
- i used to believe cars could fly, but only the rich had them in big cities. Thus, i never saw them.— kevin
- I used to believe that my dog could speak English, but he just didn't feel like it.— Mariah