For geography homework I have to make Dominoes of Richter Scale to Seismograph. In other words I’m making it so one side of it will be a Richter measurement and the other will be the same in Seismic measurement, but I cannot find anything showing this (E.G. 6.0 On the Richter scale = Whatever on the Seismograph) someone give me a link or some help?
well on yahoo, it says "Storm clouds create dramatic sight
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are the subject of amazing images taken around the world."
all over the world? whoa.
also, those earthquakes in Chili and Haiti? apparently there were like over 10 more that they didn’t even bother mentioning that happened within the same year all about a 7.0 or higher on the Richter scale.
i know theres a bad economy right now but this is a VERY messed up movie that probably shouldn’t have been made… http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/201-christmas-favorite-nutcracker-gone-horribly-wrong
north korea might start a nuclear war… uh oh?
"N. Korea tensions, collapse plans revealed
Among other surprises, leaks show the regime’s ties to close ally China are not what the world thought"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_nkorea_wikileaks
theres a new space/technology race that is making everyone go insane with "inventive technology sciencyness"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101130/sc_afp/unclimatewarminguschina
and pretty much the mayan calender is not the only one that ends in 2012.
a bunch of other ones including a chinese version were also found to end in 2012.
how did they all copy off of each other?
im not saying 2012 is the end because alot of times people have said that "oh its Y2k just because its 2000 its going to explode" thats just illogical…
2012 is the only end of the world scenario with actual scientific evidence that some really weird stuff is going to happen and earth is going to be in a very weird place in 2012, or something like that.
so im just wondering… is 2012 the end of the world? any info?
thats an interesting way to put it, but im talking about some solid*well, "evidence-ish" that is hinting at unusual stuff happening to the world and its inhabitants.
wow kyle you have no rhythm… LOL
but hey, how do you KNOW what im talking about? the answer: u dont.
A) The Richter scale allows us to make predictions of earthquake damage.
B) Each step of the scale represents a 30-fold increase in energy released.
C) The Richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
D) Earthquakes with equal ratings do not have the same damage.
If one earthquake has a magnitude of 5 on the richter scale and a second earthquake has a magnitude of 6 compare the intensities of the two earthquakes.
I know this has something to do with logarithims and the answer is 60 DB, I just dont know how to arrive at the answer, thanks.
Many powerful earthquakes are followed later by less-powerful earthquakes called “aftershocks.”
If an earthquake measures 6 on the Richter scale and is followed by an aftershock that measures 4, how
many times more energy was released in the original earthquake as compared to the aftershock?
geography
i need to know an earthquake that happend at
1
2
3
4
5
6
and 7
on the richter scale
thank you guys xxx
i’ve already typed them into google sozzy xx
what does a seismograph have to do with the Richter scale?
Richter Scale:
a. 5.0 – 5.9 ~ Small
b. 6.0 – 6.9 ~ Moderate
c. 7.0 – 7.9 ~ Major
d. 8.0 – 8.9 ~ Great
I found this in my mom’s book on natural disasters. It’s less than 1 year old…can a 5 earthquake cause damage? Please explain.
Have any of you been through an earthquake that was rated around a 5 on the richter scale? What was it like?
How are the Richter Scale and the moment magnitude scale similar? How are they diffrent?
I only know that Richter scale 3 will shake 0.1 mm at a distance of 100 kilometer. It increases by ten fold for each Richter scale magnitude. Give example how it will vary according the distance of epicenter. They say it is Inverse Square of the distance. Please explain with a model calculation. If an earthquake is measured from a distance of 2000 kilometers from epicenter and if the magnitude is 9 in Richter scale what will be the maximum shaking. Will the S wave pass through sea water.?
An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale releases about how many times more energy than an earthquake with a magnitude of 6?
Given that the Richter scale is a base 10- logarithmic measure of the amplitude of an earthquake, determine how much stronger an earthquake that measures 6.9 is than one that measures 5.4.
How do you do this?? Explanation and answer please 
If the LA earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale and the magnitude of the San Francisco earthquake had a magnitude 35 times as intense as the LA earthquake, what is the magnitude of the San Francisco earthquake?
What is the measure of an earthquake that is 10 times as intense as an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the richter scale
i think you need to use log
how many orders of magnitude greater is an earthquake rated at 4 on the Richter scale than an earthquake rated at 3 and at 2
We’ve been told that there are a number of flaws to the Richter scale (ML), the limitations of the original instrumentation, that it was only designed for use in California and that shallow earthquakes are a practical problem. Can you explain why this should be?
Reading it back, maybe the point is it only works for shallow earthquakes?!
I’m doing a project in algebra on earthquakes. I think that it might be the Richter scale and the mercalli scale. but there’s also a seismograph…so im not sure which two to use.
why or why not?
and can the it also be high on the mercalli scale but low on the richter scale?
An earthquake with a reading of 7.0 on the Richter scale releases ten times as much energy as an earthquake that registers 6.0 on the scale. If x represents the amount of energy released by a 6.0 earthquake, write an expression for the amount of energy released by a 7.0 earthquake.
First it was the earthquake in Haiti. Then it was the earthquake in Chile. 2 major earthquakes within a month of each other. Now there’s been some tremors in california, one even going as high as 4.3 on the richter scale. And im wondering… Are these earthquakes leading up to something big? Such as The Big One?
I used to have a Chinese page marked that recorded earthquakes in China that were 3.0+ on the Richter scale. (The USGS.gov site records 4.0+ for global events; 2.5+ for tremors in the US).
At any rate, the site moved and I somehow deleted the new address and I’m having trouble finding it again. Would any of you by chance know this site? Thanks so much!
Of course . . . right after I posted this question, I found a site! However, I’d love to know if there are others . . .
Thanks again!
The USGS website only records information on global events over 4.0. I often feel earthquakes in my region that do not show up on that site because they are a 3.5 or something like that. I like to track them or to know at least if I’m feeling an earthquake or something else. (We can also feel the effects of blasting in the nearby mountains.)
Here is a quote from an article regarding the quake in Italy (L’Aquilla).
"The U.S. Geological Survey said the big quake was magnitude 6.3, but Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics put it at 5.8 and more than a dozen aftershocks followed."
I know that the Richter scale is logarithmic, so this difference is actually substantial. Do estimates normally vary this much?
Are you saying that it is different because one measurement was made on the N. American plate and the other made on the European plate?
14.5 on the Richter scale.
I have a math project where we have to present an application of logarithms in real life. I chose the richter scale and I still don’t quite understand, even after reading the explanations, I need an example. Please help me understand or refer me to an example. Thanks.
I really need to understand this:
What is the magnitude of an earthquake that is 3.7 times as strong as another earthquake that measures 5.2 on the Richter scale?
Thanks in advance!
The mega earthquakes in New Madrid on December 16, 1811 and January 23 1812 were quite strong I understand. However the earthquake that struck the New Madrid fault Zone on Feb 7, 1812 is said to have reached 8.0 on the Richter Scale. How is this possible when Charles Richter’s Richter scale was not invented for another hundred years?
and an earthquake that measures 6.2 on the richter scale?
earthquake. Explain how the Richter scale is used..
Help!
please and thank you
The largest earthquake ever recorded was in 1960, in the ocean off the coast of Chile. It measured 9,5 on the richter scale!
After the earthquake 22 hours later it caused 200 people to drown on the east coast of Japan. How did it do that??!
What are amplitude ratios between a Richter-scale 5 earthquake and a Ricther-scale 6 earthquake?