Monday, November 9, 2009

The Richter Scale

The Richter Scale was developed by Charles Richter in the 1930s and is a logarithmic measurement of the amount of energy released by an earthquake. For each one-point magnitude increase of an earthquake on the Richter Scale, about thirty-two times more energy is released. Other earthquake measurements include the Mercalli Intensity Scale and the Moment Magnitude Scale.
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