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egoroff_w [7]
4 years ago
11

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Geography
1 answer:
skelet666 [1.2K]4 years ago
8 0
The Richter scale is used, from 0.1 to 9.0 magnitude. The Richter scale is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs.
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