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Agent 488 · 03-12-2011, 10:01 AM

These older magnitude scales have been superseded by the implementation of methods for estimating the seismic moment, creating the moment magnitude scale, although the former are still widely used because they can be calculated quickly.

03-12-2011, 10:01 AM
Agent 488 Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 22,511	These older magnitude scales have been superseded by the implementation of methods for estimating the seismic moment, creating the moment magnitude scale, although the former are still widely used because they can be calculated quickly.