being a log scale its 100 times larger between 6 and 8 --each increment of one is a factor of 10 in magnitude. energy released is much much larger tho
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The Richter magnitude scale is a base-10 logarithmic scale of the shaking amplitude. This means that a difference of 1 in the scale is equivalent to a 10-fold increase in amplitude. So the difference in amplitude between a mag 8 and a mag 4 earthquake is 104.
Yes. Very much so!Bigger than how many inches? A yard is 36 inches.
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A 100 is ten times smaller than a 1000