The Haiti earthquake in 2010 had a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale.
Richter scale is used to measure earthquakes magnitude Shake intensity is measured on the Mercalli scale
Richter scales are named after Charles F. Richter, an American seismologist who developed the scale in 1935. The scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismographs.
Richter scale
The scale for a Tsunami is a Richter Scale. The Richter Scale is a scale that measures earthquakes, and Tsunamis are normally made by earthquakes. But be careful, because Tsunamis are normally formed by 6.5's or greater on the Richter Scale. -I hope I helped Actually, the Richter Scale is invalid, and we do not use it any more. The scale we use today is the MMS, or Moment Magnitude Scale. In the MMS, every point up the scale (Which goes from 1-10), multiplies it's magnitude by 30.
The Haiti earthquake in 2010 had a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale.
No earthquake has ever been recorded with a magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale. The strongest recorded earthquake had a magnitude of 9.5 in Chile in 1960. Very few earthquakes have reached a magnitude of 8 or higher on the Richter scale.
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Earthquakes are the events whose magnitude is expressed as a number on the Richter Scale.
I believe it was 7.0.
a Richter scale
Richter scale is used to measure earthquakes magnitude Shake intensity is measured on the Mercalli scale
The Richter scale measures the magnitude of seismic waves produced by an earthquake, which provides an estimate of the energy released at the earthquake's source. A higher Richter scale number indicates a stronger earthquake.
You can measure earthquakes on the Moment magnitude scale or the Richter scale
There are a number of earthquake magnitude scales, including the moment magnitude scale (the scale currently favoured by seismologists), the Richter or local magnitude scale and the surface wave magnitude scale.
The Richter scale. For larger earthquakes (magnitude greater than 7) and for those with an epicentral distance greater than 700 km from the seismometer station, the Moment magnitude scale is used.
No. The Richter scale is a way for scientists to describe how much energy was released by an earthquake (this is known as the earthquakes magnitude).