What is the difference in intensity of an earthquake of 6.2 and 4.5?

1 Answer

In Richter scale each number increases the intensityenter image source here by

Explanation:

The #color(blue)"amplitude"# of earthquake is tenfolded as Richter scale increases by 1 (as the images above), but the #color(red)"energy"# will be #10^(1.5)=31.6# times larger if the scale goes 1 up.

So the intensity of scale #6.2# earthquake will be #10^(6.2-4.5)=50.1# times larger than that of scale #4.5#. Wikimedia.com.