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How much more energy is released from an earthquake of a magnitude of 6.5 to a magnitude of 5.5?
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∙ 13y ago
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 has a shaking amplitude 10 times that of an earthquake with a 4.0 magnitude.
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∙ 8y agoBecause the Richter scale of measuring the magnitude of energy is a logarithmic scale, each position is 10x as energetic as the previous position. As a result, a magnitude 5 earthquake is ten times as energetic as a magnitude 4 earthquake and one-hundred times as energetic as a magnitude 3 earthquake.
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∙ 14y agoA 5.0 magnitude earthquake releases about 32 times as much energy as a 4.0 event. The energy released is equal to the 3/2 power of the multiple of shaking amplitude. (The square root of the third power of the change in amplitude. Here the change is 1.0 on the Richter scale, so the amplitude multiple is 10 and the energy is sqrt(103) which is sqrt(1000) or 31.6 times the energy.)
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∙ 13y ago31.6 times more energy is released from a magnitude 5.0 earthquake than a magnitude 4.0 earthquake.
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∙ 9y agoAn earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 has a shaking amplitude 10 times that of an earthquake with a 4.0 magnitude.
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∙ 13y agoThe magnitude 6.5 earthquake releases 31.6 times more energy than a magnitude 5.5 earthquake.
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∙ 13y ago32 times more energy
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∙ 12y ago31.t times more enrgy
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An earthquake with magnitude 6.6 on the Richter scale releases how many times as much energy as an earthquake with magnitude 5.6?
A 3.0 earthquake releases 1,000 times more energy than a 1.0 earthquake.
How many times more powerful is an earthquake measuring 7.0 than one measuring 5.0?
The Richter magniude scale is logorithmic. As such the size (amplitude) of the largest seismic waves produced by a magnitude 7 earthquake are 102 (or 100) times larger than those produced by a magnitude 5 earthquake. However the amount of energy released by a magnitude7 earthquake is 1000 times greater (102)^3/2 than a magnitude 5 earthquake and so it is likely to be much more destructive.
How strong is a magnitude 8 earthquake compared to a 7?
The amplitude (height) of the seismic waves in a magnitude 8 earthquake will be ten times larger than in a magnitude 7 quake. This equates to approximately 31 times more energy.
Does tectonic plate size effect earthquake magnitude?
Tectonic plate size does affect earthquake magnitude. Earthquakes happen when one plate slides above/below another plate, to do this it takes massive amounts of convection energy from the mantle to move the plate above. The larger the mass of the plate, the more energy is needed to move it which means that large plates have a lot of stored up energy in them before the quake in question. When the energy is released the plate boundary snaps releasing all the built up energy. As there was so much energy stored in the plate the more is released, causing a larger, more devastating earthquake.
How much more ground motion is produced by an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 than by an earthquake of magnitude 4.0?
0.3 magnitude
What is the energy level difference between a magnitude 5 earthquake and a magnitude 4 earthquake?
30 times more energy released. 10 times more ground motion*
What term means the measure of energy released by an earthquake?
The measure of energy released by an earthquake depends on its magnitude. If its a high magnitude earthquake, there is a lot of energy. If there is a low magnitude, then there is little energy.
An earthquake with magnitude 7.5 has how many more times the energy than a 6.5 earthquake?
Seismic energy increases by a factor of about 31.6 for each increase of magnitude, so a magnitude 3 earthquake has 31.6 times more energy released than a magnitude 2 earthquake.
What is the difference between a 5.0 earthquake and a 6.0 earthquake?
The earthquake magnitude is a measure of the energy released during an earthquake. The scale is logarithmic, such that a magnitude of 6.0 releases about 32 times more energy than a magnitude 5.0 earthquake, and in turn more than 900 times more energy than a magnitude 4.0 earthquake.
What is the difference in energy released by an 5 earthquake and a 6 earthquake?
Roughly 32 times more energy is released in a Magnitude 6 earthquake than in a Mag.5 quake.
How much more energy is released in a 6.5 Richter magnitude earthquake than in one with a magnitude of 5.5?
30 times
What is measured by the amount of energy released by an earthquake?
Magnitude scales are measurements of the amount of energy released by an earthquake. Perhaps the most famous is the Richter magnitude scale although this has since been replaced by the moment magnitude scale. Please see the related questions for more information.
What is the energy level difference between a magnitude 5 earthquake and magnitude 6 earthquake?
A magnitude 6 earthquake emits roughly 31 times more energy than a magnitude 5 earthquake. The magnitude 6 quake will also have a maximum seismic wave amplitude of ten times the magnitude 5 earthquake.
Why does an earthquake have only one magnitude?
Because magnitude is a measurement of the amount of energy released in an earthquake and this value will remain constant once the earthquake has finished. However the estimates seismologists make of this value may change as they gain more information about the earthquake...
How much less energy does a magnitude 4 earthquake have than a magnitude 7?
Each increase by one magnitude corresponds to a release of energy 31.6 times that released by the lesser earthquake.Since 7 is 3 magnitudes higher than 4, the magnitude 4 earthquake has roughly 1/31554th the energy of the magnitude 7.Each increase by one magnitude corresponds to a release of shaking amplitude 10 times that released by the lesser earthquake.Since 7 is 3 magnitudes higher than 4, the magnitude 4 earthquake has 1/1000th the shaking amplitude of the magnitude 7.The amount of energy changes much more rapidly with magnitude than the amount of shaking amplitude. This is a commonly made error.
How many more times energy does an earthquake with a Richter magnitude 8 release than an earthquake with a Richter magnitude of 6?
about a 1000
What does it mean when the seismic waves are in a 5.5 magnitude earthquake?
It means that a certain amount of shaking occurs near the earthquake; or equivalently, that a certain amount of energy is released. For more details on how this magnitude is defined, check the Wikipedia article on "Richter magnitude scale".
