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What is the scale that accurately rates the size of seismic waves only for small nearby earthquakes?
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Have tsunamis scale of Richter?
No. The Richter Scale rates the intensity of earthquakes. There is not intensity scale for tsunamis.
What scale rates the size of seismic waves?
Most scientists use a machine called a seismograph which has a pen on the end and moves when there is shaking from the seismic waves. It records the shaking on a rotating paper called a seismogram. The up and down lines you see sometimes are drawn by the seismograph.
Why are there more earthquakes on the western part of the US?
There are so many earthquakes on the west coast because the west coast is between tectonic plates. These plates move and cause earthquakes.
What role does elasticity and the storage of potential energy play in the development of an earthquake?
They play an important role, since in most casses they determine the degree of intensity or extent of destruction of the earthquake, because they tend to affects the rates of movement of the seismic waves i.e. the seismic velocity within rocks and Earth materials.
At hurricane Katrina what was the number on the Richter scale or the Simpson scale?
Like all Atlantic hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina was rated on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It was a category 5. The Richter scale rates earthquakes, not hurricanes.
What is the death rates in earthquakes?
it depends on how you mesure it.
What is the scale that rates earthquakes?
The Richter scale. For larger earthquakes (magnitude greater than 7) and for those with an epicentral distance greater than 700 km from the seismometer station, the Moment magnitude scale is used.
What are the instrument used to record seismic waves?
A seismometer (or the older device called a seismograph) records the seismic waves from earth tremors.+++There is a difference there: a seismometer would simply register instant vibration; a seismograph records the vibrations with time so shows the whole picture.
What is a scale that rates earthquakes by estimating the total energy released?
The the Moment Magnitude scale
Have tsunamis scale of Richter?
No. The Richter Scale rates the intensity of earthquakes. There is not intensity scale for tsunamis.
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What scale rates the size of seismic waves?
Most scientists use a machine called a seismograph which has a pen on the end and moves when there is shaking from the seismic waves. It records the shaking on a rotating paper called a seismogram. The up and down lines you see sometimes are drawn by the seismograph.
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Death rates can change unexpectedly due to disease, wars and catastrophes, or advances in medicine. Birth rates are declining too.
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No, manual measurements of heart rates done by professionals are better in detecting irregularities. An Electrocardiogram (ECG) machine can get accurate readings as well.
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