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The Richter scales grows by powers of 10, so an increase of 1 point means the strength of an earth quake is 10 times greater than the level before it; for example, and earthquake registering 3.0 on the Richter scale is 10 times stronger than a quake that registered 2.0
10 times. In the scale or richter (I don't know how to write it correctly but it is the scale in with we count the power of an earthquake) each time you increase by 1 you mutliply by 10, so a 6 earthquake is a 10x5 earthquake which is a 100x4, which is a 1000x3 which is a 10000x2 which is a 100000x1. Hope that helped.
stress builds up on a fault line over time and then releases all of the stress in an earthquake.
The description suggests that elastic strain energy may be building up on the fault. This occurs if the fault is not free to move. This energy is dissipated by earthquakes. If non have occurred and this energy is continuing to be stored then the longer the time period since an earthquake, the larger / stronger the potential earthquake. I know this makes no sense but whatever
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