Thread: Richter scale

Hi!

I would really appraciate som help with this following problem. My apologies if this is en the wrong thread but im a swede and my english terms in mathematics isn't all that great :P

Now for the task:


M is the magnitude and E the energy which is released during and earthquake.

> Solve this equation with respect to E..

> A powerful earthquake has the magnitude 8.0 on the Richterscale. How much energy i released in such an earthquake?

I've started with this one:




and now im stuck


Any help regarding these two tasks would be great

Best Regards

Take log of the other side of the equation

E = Log16.4/Log10[/tex]

E = 1.2148

Hope it helps.

thank you for the quick reply!

I thought this was the next step but i got confused regarding the result.

Isn't it to small? 1.21... Joule sounds very little when it supposed to be a big earthquake?

thx again

BobBall was thinking that your "log10E" was "logarithm of 10 times E" when I think you meant " , the "logarithm, base 10, of E".

So from use the inverse logarithm ( on a calculator to get 25118864315095801, approximately.