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Originally Posted by sperry
It's a base 10 logarithmic scale for measuring amplitude, so a 1 point increase is equivalent to 10 times more amplitude, which requires 31.6 times the energy to create. So yeah, it's 30 some odd times more energy, but still only 10 times the shaking, which is what I thought the Richter Scale was for (measuring what the quake feels like). Usually the Moment Magnitude scale is used for measuring the energy of a quake. |
Damn, pwnd by reading comprehension...