text:  And they vary from place to place, but each earthquake has only one magnitude, one energy. How many sticks of dynamite was it equivalent to? But the effects are, which side of the brick wall were you on? How far away were you from the explosion? So there is an infinite number of intensities, and it varies usually upon your local geologic setting and the type of structure you're in. But all those numbers you gave me were not, you know, we have never, the world has never experienced a 9 Richter magnitude, as far as we know.