[Strategerist]

It gets even more complicated; technically, the “Richter scale” isn’t used at all by scientists anymore.

There are actually about 8 different types of magnitude; all use a logarithmic scale, and a given earthquake will be in the same general numerical range in the different types of magnitude, but the differences increase with larger earthquake magnitudes.

The 6.5 magnitude for this earthquake is 6.5 Mw - Moment Magnitude.

And it’s only the ground shaking that increases by 10 times for each magnitude; the energy release actually increases 32 times for each magnitude; the energy release more closely correlates with damage.

[SunkenCiv]

Ouch! 32 times. Thanks Strategerist.

[fatima]

Thanks Strategerist.

[Quix]

THANKS MUCH.

Have often wondered about such details.

Do you have a table comparing the 8 scales at different magnitudes?