The recorded magnitude of an earthquake depends on your distance from the epicentre
No, this is a confusion.
Read the other comments here: there's two things (which I just learned from reading this, but I always knew the epicenter magnitude is the measure of quake power):
1. The recorded magnitude for a quake is the measure of energy of quake at that epicenter.
2. An intensity scale measures the shaking (and it's perceptual effects on humans) at distances from the epicenter.
Stop contesting what I'm saying here: I'm saying the magnitude was 6.9. That's a true statement.
I'm also saying I fucking felt it. That's also true. Stop telling me I got either of those things wrong. They're both true. You don't fucking know what I felt or what I didn't feel. Also, the magnitude was 6.9 (or 6.8 depending on system used).
Obviously I know that what you feel a further distance from it is less shaking that what you feel up close. Come on, of course! It's obvious. Why assume I'm saying something "dumb", or can't understand that unless you need to pretend to look down. And why assume that what I'm saying is false; I'm saying that what I felt in Taipei was sickening. You can't question! That's what I fucking felt.
You have no idea of what I felt. You can't question it. Jeeus F Christ, what is wrong with you?
Ok, maybe you weren't saying that specifically...but you know what I mean? People on here trying to tell me I had magnitude wrong: no I had it 100% right. Trying to tell me what I could or couldn't feel, not they can't. Trying to be like surprised I felt sickening at this: it's my fucking reaction. I can feel whatever I want and you have no idea about that and no say in that.
It's a basic question and boundary. My feelings and reactions are what I know and no one else can tell me that something internal to me didn't happen, and I experienced it, and I know it happened.
I mean can you understand how exasperating that is? It's like: "You people don't have any idea at all, what are you even talking about?" Ugh.
