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The strength of an earthquake is determined with the help of the
Richter scale
and other scales. The specified value, the
Magnitude
, indicates the energy released.
Medium
Seismographs
will be the maximum
amplitudes
(that is, the deflections of the needle) that would have been generated by earthquakes 100 km away. the
decadic logarithm
of the maximum measured amplitudes gives the magnitude. Increasing magnitude by 1 means 33 times more energy release. an earthquake of magnitude 5.0 is 33 times stronger than one of magnitude 4.0. The scale was changed from
Charles Francis Richter
Y
Beno gutenberg
I’m Entwickelt from the California Institute of Technology.
Strictly speaking, however, the strength of earthquakes is today in the
Torque-Magnitude-Scale
specified. In addition to energy, it also takes into account the size of the broken rock. The surface of the fracture can be calculated from the earthquake measurements of many seismographs.
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