Plate Tectonics Questions
The Richter scale is used to measure earthquake magnitude by quantifying the amount of seismic energy released during an earthquake. It assigns a numerical value to the earthquake based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded by seismographs. The scale is logarithmic, meaning that each whole number increase on the Richter scale represents a tenfold increase in the amplitude of the seismic waves and approximately 31.6 times more energy released.