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What it measured on the Richter scale?
The Richter scale measures the magnitude of seismic waves produced by an earthquake, which provides an estimate of the energy released at the earthquake's source. A higher Richter scale number indicates a stronger earthquake.
What do you use to measure the power of an earthquake?
The power of an earthquake is measured using a seismometer to record the seismic waves produced by the earthquake. The magnitude of an earthquake is typically measured using the Richter scale or moment magnitude scale.
What are the two types of earthquake scales?
The two types of earthquake scales are the Richter scale and the moment magnitude scale. The Richter scale measures the amplitude of seismic waves, while the moment magnitude scale accounts for the energy released by an earthquake.
The Richter scale is a system that measures the amount of energy released at the focus of an earthquake?
No. The scale you are describing is an intensity scale such as the modified Mercalli scale. The Richter scale is in fact a magnitude scale which describes the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
What was the mercalli scale for the Kobe earthquake?
The Mercalli Intensity Scale is a measure of earthquake intensity experienced at a given location. The Kobe earthquake in 1995 had intensities reaching up to VIII (8) on the Mercalli Intensity Scale in the heavily affected areas around Kobe.
What's the biggest earthquake?
The biggest earthquake measured 9.5 on the ritcher scale.
How big was the biggest earthquake?
Not all earthquakes that ever happened have been recorded. We've only recorded them for a little over a century, I believe. So you can't tell for certain. But the biggest earthquake on record is the Valdivia earthquake, from 1960. It measured 9.5 on the Richter scale. (a scale ranging from 1-10)The highest magnitude earthquake occurred in Chile in 1960 with a scale of 9.5.
How big was the earthquake?
Not all earthquakes that ever happened have been recorded. We've only recorded them for a little over a century, I believe. So you can't tell for certain. But the biggest earthquake on record is the Valdivia earthquake, from 1960. It measured 9.5 on the Richter scale. (a scale ranging from 1-10)The highest magnitude earthquake occurred in Chile in 1960 with a scale of 9.5.
What happened on January 17th 1995?
The biggest Earthquake to hit Japan in 47 years hit Kobe.It measured 7.2 on the Richter magnitude scale.
How big is the biggest earthquake that has ever happened?
the biggest earthquake recorded was 9.1 on the Richter scale.
What is the biggest earthquake that has ever happened in Mexico?
The largest earthquake thought to have ever happened in Mexico is that caused by the impact of the asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater approximately 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. This released energy equivalent to an earthquake of 13 on the Richter scale.
What is the biggest earthquake recorded?
The largest earthquake ever recorded was the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Valdivia, Chile which measure at 9.5 on the Richter scale.
How many get injured during an earthquake?
It depends upon the effect in which earthquake had been happened. They are measured by Richter scale.
When was the earthquake in kashmir?
The Kashmir Earthquake happened in the 8th of September 2005 and measured 7.6 on the Richter Scale killing 80,000 people.
Where did the biggest earthquake happened?
The biggest earthquake ever recorded, which occurred near the cities of Valdivia and Puerto Montt, Chile, in 1960. Known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, the quake measured an impressive 9.5 on the Richter scale. The death toll of the Great Chilean Earthquake is not known, although the USGS estimates about 1,655 people died, and the earthquake may have caused as much as $800 billion US Dollars in damage.
What magnitude was the earthquake that happened in haiti in January of 2010?
The January 12, 2010 earthquake measured 7.0 Mw on the moment magnatude scale.
Which earthquake scale rates the magnitude of the earthquake?
The Richter Scale
