SOLUTION: An earthquake had an intensity of 199,526,231 Io. Find the Richter Scale magnitude of the earthquake using M=log⁡〖I/Io〗, where M is the magnitude of the earthquake, I is the

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Question 1190257: An earthquake had an intensity of 199,526,231 Io. Find the Richter Scale magnitude of the earthquake using M=log⁡〖I/Io〗, where M is the magnitude of the earthquake, I is the intensity of the shock waves, and Io is the measure of the intensity of a zero-level earthquake.
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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M=log (199526231)=8.22
can check. This is about 2 x 10^8, so the magnitude mss 8+log 2, and the latter is 0.3010, so at 200 million it would be magnitude 8.3.