Visualising the magnitude scale
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Visualising the magnitude scale
A single step in the magnitude scale represents an increase of about 30 times the energy released at the source deep in the earth. A magnitude 5 earthquake is therefore about 900 times bigger than a magnitude 3 earthquake. The size of the boxes represents the energy released by earthquakes of increasing magnitude.
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