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