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BookmarkThe Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake.
It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a seismometer output..
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