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What does the magnitude of an earth mean? What is the wave height of a 6.3 magnitude quake?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/06/italy.quake/index.html
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 April 06, 2009 06:24 PM
The Richter scale assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale: an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0.

Based on my math a 6.3 would have a waveheight of 2 meters.

10^6.3 = 1 995 262.31 microns = 1.99526231 meters
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale
http://tremor.nmt.edu/faq/how.html
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

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