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What's the unit of the seismic measurements?

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Question added by majid أبوالعلا , Geotechnical Engineering , El Nour Engineering consulting Office
Date Posted: 2016/02/24
Berhanu Shiferaw
by Berhanu Shiferaw , Assistance Obeserver , BGP Geo-services PLC

Seismic Signals

Much like sunlight contains different colors that can be split apart with a prism, seismic waves contain many different "frequencies" that we can record with specially "tuned" seismometers. you can read  the below link it will give you good guide

http://eqseis.geosc.psu.edu/~cammon/HTML/Classes/IntroQuakes/Notes/seismometers.html

best regards

Berhanu 

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by Deleted user

There are two different seismic scale commonly used today. Magnitude scale measures the original energy of an earthquake, and Intensity scale measures the intensity of shaking occurring at any given point on the Earth's surface.

 

Richter magnitude scale, or Richter scale, assigns a magnitude number to quantify the energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale. More info on Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale

 

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Djordje

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