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BigorU [14]
2 years ago
15

Which statement describes the Richter scale?​

Geography
1 answer:
olga nikolaevna [1]2 years ago
7 0
Hello,


It was established in 1935 by the American geologist Charles Francis Richter. This is a so-called logarithmic scale: an earthquake reaching 5 on the Richter scale is in fact 10 times more powerful than an earthquake of magnitude 4. In principle, this scale has no upper limit



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