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An earthquake with a magnitude of about 2.0 or less is called a microearthquake. It is not usually felt. The intensity of an earthquake with a magnitude of 2 is how many times greater than the intensity of an a standard earthquake?
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2 times greater
10 times greater
100 times greater
1,000 times greater
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100 times greater.
Reason: the Richter magnitude is logarithmic base 10, so a 2.0 quake has 10^2 = 100 times the ground-motion amplitude of a magnitude‑0 (standard) quake.
Reason: the Richter magnitude is logarithmic base 10, so a 2.0 quake has 10^2 = 100 times the ground-motion amplitude of a magnitude‑0 (standard) quake.
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