Question

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?

Answer 1

Answer:

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} )