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kykrilka [37]
3 years ago
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The magnitude of an earthquake is a number that represents the what

Biology
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Llana [10]3 years ago
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One useful point about the moment magnitude scale is that it is logarithmic, where each whole number represents a factor of 32. Therefore, the difference in two whole numbers of the magnitude means that an earthquake is 1,000 times stronger. For example, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake releases 1,000 times more energy than a 5.0 one.

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