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How Earthquakes Are Measured: Magnitude vs Intensity
Why the Richter scale was retired, what a jump from magnitude 6 to 7 really means, and how your own report of shaking ends up on a USGS map.
Space, Earth and the natural world, explained.
Why the Richter scale was retired, what a jump from magnitude 6 to 7 really means, and how your own report of shaking ends up on a USGS map.
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