What will the reading on the Richter scale be for an earthquake that has an intensity of 3.8 * 106 and a reference value of 1?

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Augustus Rocha

Mathematics

20 January, 00:57

What will the reading on the Richter scale be for an earthquake that has an intensity of 3.8 * 106 and a reference value of 1?

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Ronin Berger · Answer 1

R=6.57978

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Step-by-step explanation:

we are given

I=3.8 / times 10^6

I_0=1

now, we can use formula

R=log (/frac{I}{I_0})

now, we can plug these values

we get

R=log (/frac{3.8 / times 10^6}{1})