It is roughly 800 times larger then the one which hit Haiti. Only 16 other earthquakes have been larger in all of recorded history.
a magnitude-8.0 earthquake can be classified as a low intensity earthquake because depending on where it occured, is realllyyy depends on how many people felt it and how bad it affected them by damaging things
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.
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The magnitude of an earthquake is a number used to quantify how much energy was released during the earthquake. The earthquake in Japan that occurred on Friday, March 10, 2011, had a moment magnitude of 8.9.
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.
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a magnitude-8.0 earthquake can be classified as a low intensity earthquake because depending on where it occured, is realllyyy depends on how many people felt it and how bad it affected them by damaging things
It is a device called a seismographe. It is used to determine the magnitude on a scale which is then deciding how bad the earthquake is.
A magnitude 6 earthquake has 10 ten times the energy of a magnitude 5 earthquake.
An earthquake's magnitude is a measure of how strong it is
The largest recorded earthquake to date, the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, was calculated to be 9.5 MW (moment magnitude scale). The scale has no boundaries, though the chance of earthquakes of increasingly greater magnitude occurring diminishes rapidly.
The magnitude of an earthquake is caluated to measure the amount of energy released during the earthquake.
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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.
The Earthquake of February 27,2010 had a magnitude of 8.8
The magnitude of Haiti's recent earthquake was 7.0
Because the "magnitude scale is not linear, it is logarithmic (its numbers are an order of magnitude apart) this mean that the a magnitude 6 earthquake is TEN TIMES more powerful than a magnitude 5 earthquake and a HUNDRED TIMES more powerful than a magnitude 4 earthquake.