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What is the answer.............Richte... scales measure this?

Answer 1

earthquakes

like if they r 5.6 or 8.1

or somethin like that

like the force of the earthquake or how hard it wuzzzzzzzzz

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Answer 2

the seismic activity involving earthquakes. Basically, how strong the earthquake is.

Answer 3

When the ground moves pretty much vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Answer 4

Richter scale will give you the energy released at the point of Focus. For getting other details you have to study the seismograph like arrival times of different waves and the maximum amplitude.The distance arrived by calculating the arrival time of P wave and s wave and the maximum amplitude recorded will be used to calculate Richter scale.See the chart for energy release for each Richter scale. He found some relations between distance,shaking and the amount of energy released.

Approximate TNT (Tri nitro telecom )  Yield for Seismic Energy                    

                       Richter scale

                                   1                     30 lbs  

                                   2. 1 ton

     3. 29 ton

     4. 1000 ton

     5. 32000 ton

     6. 1 million ton

     7. 32 million ton

     8. 1 billion ton

     9. 32 billion ton

    10 1 trillion ton.

Answer 5

seismic activity

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_sca...

Answer 7

It gives the intensity of an eartrhquake as assessed by scale of damage and perceptions.

thnks

Answer 8

Quantitative scale of earthquake magnitude based on the measurement of seismic waves, used to indicate the magnitude of an earthquake at its epicentre. The Richter scale is logarithmic, so an earthquake of 6.0 is ten times greater than one of 5.0. The magnitude of an earthquake differs from its intensity, measured by the Mercalli scale, which is qualitative and varies from place to place for the same earthquake. The scale is named after US seismologist Charles Richter.

An earthquake&#039;s magnitude is a function of the total amount of energy released, and each point on the Richter scale represents a thirtyfold increase in energy over the previous point. One of the greatest earthquakes ever recorded, in 1920 in Gansu, China, measured 8.6 on the Richter scale.