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Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale - Wikipedia  The Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale is a seismic scale used in Japan and ... The JMA Scale runs from 0 to 7, with 7 being the strongest.
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Richter magnitude scale - Wikipedia  The Richter magnitude scale (also Richter scale) assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake. The Richter scale, developed in the 1930s, is a base-10 logarithmic scale, which defines magnitude as the logarithm of the ratio of the amplitude of the seismic waves to an arbitrary, minor amplitude. ... 4 Magnitude empirical formulae; 5 See also; 6 References; 7 External links...
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Mercalli intensity scale - Wikipedia  The Mercalli intensity scale is a seismic scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake. It measures the effects of an earthquake, and is distinct from the...
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Richter Scale & Magnitude - SMS Tsunami Warning  The Richter Magnitude Scale: Development, Details, Richter Magnitudes, Examples, ... of the largest recorded wave at a specific distance from the seismic source. ... increases 100 times between a level 7 earthquake and a level 9 earthquake.
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Seismic scale - Wikipedia  Earthquakes are measured with two kinds of seismic scales: scales of the magnitude of the energy released by the rupture, and scales of the intensity of the...
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The Way We Measure Earthquakes Is Stupid | WIRED  Aug 13, 2015 ... The Richter scale uses surface shaking amplitude as a proxy of energy ... But many of us learned, at one point, that a magnitude-6 earthquake is 10 ... Seismologists use seismic momentwhich, remember, is basically ... I was like, 'No they don't. ... The energy disperses as it travels through the earth's crust.
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The Science of Earthquakes - USGS Earthquake Hazards Program  Apr 7, 2016 ... The location below the earth's surface where the earthquake starts is called ... location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter. ... But this skin is not all in one piece  it is made up of many pieces like a ... faults, and most of the earthquakes around the world occur on these faults.
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Charles Francis Richter - Wikipedia  Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, ... developed a standard scale to measure the relative sizes of earthquake...
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Earthquake - Wikipedia  An earthquake is the perceptible shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden ... Tectonic earthquakes occur anywhere in the earth where there is sufficient .... Most earthquake clusters consist of small tremors that cause little to no ... of 18 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.07.9) and one great earthquake...
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History of Geologic Time Scale  The history of the earth is broken up into a hierarchical set of divisions for describing geologic time. As increasingly smaller units of time, the generally accepted divisions are eon, era, period, epoch, age. In the time scale shown at left, only the two highest levels of this hierarchy are represented.
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This question originally aired on April 29, 1998... | Jeopardy ...  Apr 29, 1998 ... Category: GET THE VIBE Question: Named for an American seismologist, this kind of scale keeps track of earthquake vibes. Answer: Richter...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Teaches Lessons in Earthquake Preparedness ...  Mar 15, 2011 ... The Great Kant? earthquake of 1923, which measured a magnitude 7.9, ... Frank Lloyd Wright's then recently completed Imperial Hotel (above) ... the few buildings in Tokyo left standing after the quake and ensuing fire. ... which Wright designed to float on the mud "like a battleship floats on ... 1 comments
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U.S.G.S. Pasadena - U.S. Geological Survey  When many of these instruments recorded the M7.2 Landers earthquake of 6/28/92, ... the widely held view was that these events occur only following large (M>7) ...... A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On, Los Angeles Times Op-ed, Lucy Jones ...... Seismology Section of the Western Earthquake Hazards Team, Pasadena, CA.
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Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions - Infoplease  31, Charleston, S.C.: magnitude 7.3 quake, killed 60 people and caused ... 1902: May 7, St. Vincent, West Indies: Soufrire volcano erupted, devastating ... 1960: Feb. ... strongest earthquake ever recorded (9.5 magnitude) struck near the coast, .... 14, South America: Earthquake with 7.7 magnitude kills at least two people...
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Richter magnitude scale - Science Daily  ... ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... based on evidence remaining in caves has been developed by scientists at the...
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Earthquake Facts & Earthquake Fantasy  Large and small earthquakes can also occur on faults not previously recognized; ... A magnitude 12 earthquake would require a fault larger than the earth itself. ... FICTION: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the deadliest ever. .... Most of these earthquakes are in the magnitude 3?4 range, large enough to have been...
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Bob Hardage: Using seismic technologies in oil and gas exploration ...  Jun 12, 2013 ... Seismic waves, the same type of waves used to study earthquakes, are ... of Economic Geology is an expert of the use of this technology for oil and gas exploration. ... How are seismic technologies used in finding oil and gas today? .... the technologies they use to identify that one sweet spot to drill out of...
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alaska's good friday earthquake march 27,1964 - USGS ...  Map of Alaska showing the area of the March 27 earthquake and its aftershocks ... epicenters of previous large earthquakes; major faults; volcanoes; and the ... great earthquake with a Richter n:a_gnitude of 8.4 to ... been much higher, and had it struck a more populous ... small cities of Valdez and Cordova, 40 and 70 miles.
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The Severity of an Earthquake - USGS Publications Warehouse  Jan 11, 2013 ... The Richter magnitude scale was developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter of the ... movement of furniture, damage to chimneys, and finally--total destruction. ... used in the United States is the Modified Mercalli (MM) Intensity Scale. ... Not felt except by a very few under especially favorable conditions.
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New Madrid Earthquakes 1811-1812 - Historic Earthquakes - U.S. ...  The geologic record of pre-1811 earthquakes reveals that the New Madrid seismic zone has repeatedly produced sequences of major earthquakes, ... M7.5, on February 7, 1812, along the Reelfoot fault in Missouri and Tennessee. ... and water waves moving upstream gave the illusion that the river was flowing upstream.
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Locating and measuring earthquakes - Putting Down Roots in ...  The S-wave is slower but larger than the P-wave and does most of the ... Scientists have used knowledge of the differences between these and other seismic waves to ... latitude and longitude of a point, but the earthquake is bigger than that point. ... Using recordings from seismographs, they measured how fast the ground...