If you ask most people how earthquakes are measured they will probably respond, "Richter scale". Yet the Richter scale isn't used any more by real scientists, who have shifted to the Moment Magnitude scale. Name one advantage of the Moment Magnitude scale, and one disadvantage of the moment magnitude scale. Why do you think the general public is mostly unaware of its importance to seismologists?

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One advantage of the Moment Magnitude scale over the Richter scale is that it can accurately measure ... View the full answer