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====[|Animated Guide to Earthquakes (click here)] ==== =Earthquake Measurement =

**Richter Scale** || **Energy Released** **in Joules** || **Comment** || occur each year on the Earth. || 12,000 people killed. || China, July 28, 1976. Approximately 255,000 people perished. || Southern Chile on May 22, 1960. Claimed 3,000 lives. ||
 * ~ Relationship between Richter Scale magnitude and energy released. ||
 * **Magnitude in**
 * 2.0 || 1.3 x 108 || Smallest earthquake detectable by people. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.0 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2.8 x 1012 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.0 - 6.9 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.6 x 1013 to 1.5 x 1015 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">About 120 shallow earthquakes of this magnitude
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.7 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.7 x 1014 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Northridge, California earthquake January 17, 1994. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.0 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2.1 x 1015 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Major earthquake threshold. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.4 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.9 x 1015 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Turkey earthquake August 17, 1999. More than
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.6 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.5 x 1016 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Deadliest earthquake in the last 100 years. Tangshan,
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.6 x 1017 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.3 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.3 x 1018 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December 26, 2004 Sumatra earthquake. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.5 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3 x 1018 || <span style="background-color: #fff000; color: #ff0064; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Most powerful earthquake recorded in the last 100 years.