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1.)On January 17, 1994, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 injured more than 8000 people and caused an estimated $13-20 billion of damage to the San Fernando Valley in California. Find the amount of energy released by the earthquake.
2.) On January 17, 1995, an earthquake struck Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe, Japan, injuring more than 36,000 people and causing an estimated $100 billion of damage. The quake released about 3.98x10^22 ergs of energy. Find the earthquake's magnitude on the Richter scale. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

woah,,,

Answer 2

such a weird question lol

Answer 3

You can answer either one you don't need to answer both. Yeah i know right.

Answer 4

did they give u some reference? like a rhictor scale and how the magnitude of an earth quake is classified

Answer 5

what does it mean for an earth quake of 6.6 magnitude
that shud help you solve the energy released

Answer 6

I know how it's classified but no they didn't

Answer 7

look it up!

Answer 8

rhictor scale to magnitude conversion

Answer 9

I did lol

Answer 10

Ouch.

Answer 11

Yeah. Sucks being in honors

Answer 12

ok i got it

Answer 13

basically 6 its going up by thousands

Answer 14

Wait which one are you doing 2

Answer 15

0.0 63 KJ
1.0 2.0 MJ
2.0 63 MJ
3.0 2.0GJ
4.0 64 GJ
and so on

Answer 16

thats how the scale is going

Answer 17

Yes, I know.

Answer 18

for 6.6 = 5.011872e+14

Answer 19

Okay. :)

Answer 20

im pretty sure they gave you a logarithm formula for this, go look it up :)

Answer 21

No they didn't xD

Answer 22

Actually the work I'm doing is not even really school work.