Magnitude of an earthquake.
1Its rankings are similar to the Richter or the moment magnitude scale for earthquakes.
2That gets us the aptly named moment magnitude scale, which supplanted the Richter scale in popular use in the 1970s.
3The first earthquake reported in Cape Town this weekend measured 2.5 on the same magnitude scale.
4The earthquake registered a preliminary 2.5 on the local magnitude scale, as recorded by SA's Seismograph network.
5Measuring at 2.3 on the local magnitude scale, the Sunday tremor was a relatively subdued seismic event.
6A further 66 quakes reached a magnitude of 7.0-7.9 and 385 scored 6.0-6.9 on the Richter magnitude scale.
7A modest fellow, he never referred to the scale by his own name, but always called it "the Magnitude Scale.")
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