5(a)The magnitude of an earthquake is measured by the Richter scale. The magnitude, M, can be determined by the equation M =1, where I is th intensity of seismic waves recorded by seismographs and I, is a constant which represents the threshold intensity.(i) State the magnitude of an...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. 美国地质调查局表示,周三印度洋发生6.1级地震。 According to the US agency, the earthquake, with its epicenter in the southern Indian Ocean, struck at around 0700GMT. 据美国机构称,震中位于南印度洋的...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the Chile – Argentina border region on Saturday morning, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The NCS, in a post on X, stated that the quake’s epicenter was 203 kilometers south of Santiago, Chile, and it had...
Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya announced that no reports of casualties were so far received. At a depth of 7.09 km, the quake caused short-term panic in the metropolis, as many people rushed to the streets immediately after it was felt. A 5.8 magnitude of an earthquake struck the city in...
Photo taken on April 24, 2018 shows a building damaged in an earthquake in Adiyaman, Turkey. An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hit Turkey's southeastern Adiyaman province early Tuesday, injuring 39 people. No deaths have yet been reported. (Xinhua) 1 2 3 4 Next KEY WORDS:earthquake ...
(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Tibet in western China on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), said GFZ, which initially recorded the magnitude at 5.7. China, which seized control of Tibet in 19...
b. A property that can be described by a real number, such as the volume of a sphere or the length of a vector. 4. Geology A measure of the amount of energy released by an earthquake, as indicated on the Richter scale. [Middle English, from Old French, size, from Latin magnitūdō...
Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration The magnitude of an earthquake was originally defined by the junior author(Richter, 1935), for shocks in southern California, as the logarithm of themaximu... B Gutenberg,C Richter - 《Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America》 被...
B A 6.2-magnitude(震级) earthquake(地震) happene d in Jishishan County(县) of Northwest China's Gansu Province(省) at 11:59 p. m. Monday of Dec. 18th, 2023(Beijing Time), according to China Earthquake Networks Center(CENC). Many people lost their lives an d many houses fell down. ...
Earlier, on October 11, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Afghanistan, the National Center for Seismology informed. The NCS stated that the earthquake occurred at 6.11 am (IST) at a depth of 10 kilometres. “Earthquake of Magnitude:6.1, Occurred on 11-10-2023, 06:...