SOLUTION: How many times more powerful was the earthquake in Alaska than the San Francisco earthquake, in 1906, with a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale? (Only given one magnitude for th

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Question 1176773: How many times more powerful was the earthquake in Alaska than the San Francisco earthquake, in 1906, with a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale? (Only given one magnitude for the question, I am a little confused as to how I should approach this problem).
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is incomplete. You need to be given the magnitudes of BOTH earthquakes if you want to find how many times greater was one of them than the other.

WHICH earthquake in Alaska?
Maybe you want some data from something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Aleutian_Islands_earthquake

Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.

It is absolutely clear that the problem is incomplete and that you recovered it from UNTRUSTED source.


Surely, we could make our own investigation in the Internet,
but it is NOT that it is expected the tutors should do.