The earthquake comes five months after a magnitude 7.8 quake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria.
    • agarorn@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      No. The amplitude goes up by x10, the energy even by x30, see Wikipedia.

      Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; in terms of energy, each whole number increase corresponds to an increase of about 31.6 times the amount of energy released, and each increase of 0.2 corresponds to approximately a doubling of the energy released.