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The scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake is called the Richter scale
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What scale is used to describe the strength of earthquakes?
The moment magnitude scale, it replaced the Richter scale.
What is the numerical scale used to express the strength of an earthquake?
The Richter scale is used to measure the strength of earthquakes.
Used to measure the strength of earthquakes?
a Richter scale
What scale is used to describe the magnitude of earthquakes?
a Richter scale
What scale is measured for an earthquakes strength?
Richter scale is used for measuring earthquakes. It is a scale which works from 1 to 10 magnitude.
Is the Richter scale used to measure the strength of earthquakes?
yes it is
What is a measure of the strength of an earthquake?
Earthquake strength is measured using a magnitude scale. For small to moderate strength Earthquakes (< magnitude 7) the Richter scale is used. For Earthquakes between 7 and 8 the body and surface magnitude scales are used and for earthquakes larger than 8, the moment magnitude scale is used.
Is the measure of the strength of an earthquake?
Earthquake strength is measured using a magnitude scale. For small to moderate strength Earthquakes (< magnitude 7) the Richter scale is used. For Earthquakes between 7 and 8 the body and surface magnitude scales are used and for earthquakes larger than 8, the moment magnitude scale is used.
What is a common scale used to describe an earthquakes amount of energy released?
The Richter Scale
Is a saffir-simpson scale used to measure the strength and the magnitude of an earthquke?
No. The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to rate hurricane strength. Earthquakes are measure on the Moment Magnitude scale (formerly the Richter scale).
What scale is used to describe the amount of damage an earthquake causes?
The Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) Scale rates earthquakes acxcording to how much damage they cause at a particular place and the measured ground accelarattions as recorded by a seismomter. In Europe the Macroseismic sclae is used which is similar in concept to the MMI scale.
What is the scale that is used to classify an describe the effects of earthquakes on structures and local damage conditions?
Mercalli scale
