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The word Magnitude is used to described the amount of energy released when an Earthquake occurs
Magnitude.
The larger the magnitude of the earthquake, the larger the energy to be released by the earthquake.
Energy released during an earthquake creates seismic waves.
This is known as the magnitude of the earthquake.
Roughly 32 times more energy is released in a Magnitude 6 earthquake than in a Mag.5 quake.
the energy released by an earthquake that travels in all direction from the focus
The magnitude of an earthquake is caluated to measure the amount of energy released during the earthquake.
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Going strictly by tables of Richter Magnitude, the total energy releasedin a 9.0 is 32 times the total energy released by an 8.0 .