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How many times stronger is a magnitude 9 earthquake than a 5 earthquake?
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A magnitude 9 earthquake is 10,000x stronger than a magnitude 5.
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How many times stronger is a magnitude 9 earthquake than a magnitude 7?
Answer #1:by a magnitude of 2======================Answer #2:by a factor of 100
How many times greater is the maximum ground motion of a magnitude 5 earthquake compared with that of a magnitude 3 earthquake?
The maximum ground motion of a magnitude 5 earthquake is 100 times larger than a magnitude 3 earthquake.
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.
A magnitude 6 earthquake is how many times greater than a magnitude 5 earthquake?
1000 times as much
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 many times greater is the magnitude of a 6.3 earthquake to a 9.2 magnitude earthquake?
A magnitude 9.2 earthquake is 794 times bigger on a seismograph than a 6.3 nut is 22387 times stronger in terms of energy released.
How many times stronger is a magnitude 9 earthquake than a magnitude 7?
Answer #1:by a magnitude of 2======================Answer #2:by a factor of 100
How many times stronger is an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 than an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0?
The Richter scales grows by powers of 10, so an increase of 1 point means the strength of an earth quake is 10 times greater than the level before it; for example, and earthquake registering 3.0 on the Richter scale is 10 times stronger than a quake that registered 2.0
How many times greater is the amplitude of an earthquake with a magnitude of 6 versus an earthquake with a magnitude of 4?
100 times
How many times greater is the maximum ground motion of a magnitude 5 earthquake compared with that of a magnitude 3 earthquake?
The maximum ground motion of a magnitude 5 earthquake is 100 times larger than a magnitude 3 earthquake.
How many times larger is a 5.5 magnitude earthquake than a 3.5 magnitude earthquake?
100 times larger
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.
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
A 9.0 earthquake is how many times larger than a 7.0 earthquake?
1000 times stronger.
How many earthquakes do we detect each year and how many cause damage?
a magnitude 7.2 earthquake produces 10 times more ground motion than a magnitude 6.2 earthquake, but it releases about 32 times more energy. The energy release best indicates the destructive power of an earthquake.
What was the strength of the earthquake in Chile?
The Earthquake in Chile was 819 times stronger than the one in Haiti.Haiti measured 7.0 in the Moment magnitude scale (which is the ONLY scale used to measure quakes these days. The Richter scale has not been used since the 70's...) while Chile measured 8.8. This is a Logarithmic scale which grows exponentially. Thus, a quake measuring 7.0 is 32 (not 10) times stronger than one measuring 6.0, and so on...So, 8.0 is 32 times stronger than 7.0; and 8.8 is 25.6 times stronger than 8.0.32 x 25.6 = 819.2How_big_was_haiti_earthquake_compared_to_Chile_earthquake
How many times greater is released from a 6.5 magnitude earthquake from a 4.5 magnitude eathquake?
A hundred times greater. The "magnitudes" used here use a logarithmic scale; every increase by one magnitude means an increase of the amount of energy in the earthquake by a factor of 10 in this case.
