Thread: Earthquake in California
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Old 05-18-2009, 02:28 PM
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The Richter scale is logarithmic. For example, a magnitude 7 quake is ten times as powerful as a magnitude 6 quake. A magnitude 8 quake is ten times as powerful as a magnitude 7 quake.
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