Alaska's 1964 Good Friday Earthquake measured 9.2 on the seismograph which is the third largest earthquake in recorded history and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake only recorded a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale. That means that the Alaska quake was more then 10 times as bad as the San Francisco quake which killed over 3,000 people.
The Alaska earthquake of 1964 was approximately 300 times more intense than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This is because the Richter scale is logarithmic, with each whole number increase representing 10 times more amplitude and about 31.6 times more energy release.
Magnitude 7.0 is a more powerful earthquake.
cases more damadge
3.0 more
It is called an aftershock.
maybe; the more powerful the earthquake, the more likely you are to feel it.
In Chile on the 22 May 1960. The city of Valdivia was the worst effected. Please see the related link for more information
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.
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.
i think an earthquake is more powerful because the ground could crack everything shakes and breaks and if someone fell ain't no telling where they would end up...#who knows?
because it caused more damage
because it released more total energy