Hundreds of people have been killed after a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night. state TV said. Follow here for live updates
Measuring earthquakes is no easy task, given they strike suddenly and sometimes at global scale.
When the Earth’s crust shifts abruptly, an earthquake occurs, with energy radiated out as seismic waves and shaking that’s sometimes experienced by people, buildings and infrastructure., as measured through 10 on the scale most commonly used to describe quakes., as measured on a scale that uses Roman numerals to assign categories based on assessed damage and people’s observations.
The moment magnitude will be larger if there is more friction and shifting across a longer distance. Seismic waves are measured by seismometers, which use a pendulum attached to a spring that moves with the shaking of the Earth, generating a kind of graph called a seismogram. Magnitude is ranked through 10, with each whole-number increase equal to 32 times more energy released.
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