It kind of brings back a memory of a dear, close person to me explaining the need to separate philosophy/science perceptions and real everyday life: “You see. In philosophy the existence of a reality does matter. In real life it doesn’t. For instance think of you hammering down a nail on a fence. Does it matter to you if the nail is in fact real or not? Does it matter if it only exists in your mind? Not really. That is the essence here. Separate real life from science. They both fulfill a need, but should most if the time never be intermixed.”

I think the denotation “Temblor” and “Terremoto” shed light of how real people distinguish the impact and how to in a strikingly simple way categorize the effect. In many ways they are so direct and simple that I just by hearing them understood what they meant, yet hearing the Richter scale forced me to look up online what that magnitude meant. I am always astonished by the fact of people using simple, real words to describe their experiences that explain more and faster than most scientific scales. A genius way to put it in my mind.