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A richter magnitude 8 earthquake is ________ times greater than a richter magnitude of 7.

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10 times bigger than a 7
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Answer:

magnitude was about how big the waves were on the particular distance from the experiment on the so called reaches scale of magnitude 8 or session program was 10 times bigger than magnitude

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the size of an earthquake increased by a factor of 10 as magnitude increase by one whole number magnet is 6.0 earthquake magnitude 7.0 is 100 times larger than magnitude 8.0 as thousand time larger than a 5.0

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