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Bookmark or Share- Earthquakes Magnitude Scale and ClassesMagnitude: Earthquake Effects: Estimated Number Each Year: 2.5 or less: Usually not felt, but can be recorded by seismograph. 900,000: 2.5 to 5.4: Often felt, but ...
- Richter magnitude scale - WikipediaThe Richter scale – also called the Richter magnitude scale or Richter's magnitude scale – is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". This was later revised and renamed the local magnitude scale, denoted as ML or M L . Because of various shortcomings of the M L scale most ...
- Magnitude-6.5 earthquake is largest in Nevada in past 66 ...An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.5 hit a remote area of Nevada on Friday morning, about 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas and near the California border, the US Geological Survey says.
- Earthquakes todayEarthquakes Today brings you the world's recent and latest earthquakes. Worldwide there are around 1400 earthquakes each day (500,000 each year). 275 of these can actually be felt. The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) in Chile on May 22, 1960.
- Magnitude (astronomy) - WikipediaConsequently, a magnitude 1 star is about 2.5 times brighter than a magnitude 2 star, 2.5 2 brighter than a magnitude 3 star, 2.5 3 brighter than a magnitude 4 star, and so on. This is the modern magnitude system, which measures the brightness, not the apparent size, of stars.
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