PMT - magnitude of seismic hazards

Question 1

what is seismicity measured with?

Answer 1

logarithmic richter scale which measures the strength of seismic waves

Question 2

what is used to rate the destruction caused?

Answer 2

mercalli intensity scale

Question 3

what is the magnitude of the earthquake dependent on?

Answer 3

the depth of the focus

Question 4

what boundaries have the shallowest boundaries?

Answer 4

conservative

closer to the epicentre and the seismic waves are stronger

Question 5

what is the differences between the richter and mercalli scales?

Answer 5

richter - magnitude of earthquake, factual, no set limit to the scale, logarithmic, represents the energy released but not what it did

mercalli - intensity of earthquake, subjective, set limit to the scale, shows what it did