The energy of vibrations measured on the richter scale increases by steps of about
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The amount of energy released increases 31.7 times between whole number values.
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The Richter scale was originally devised to measure the magnitude of earthquakes of moderate size (that is, magnitude 3 to magnitude 7) by assigning a number that would allow the size of one earthquake to be compared with another. The scale was developed for temblors occuring in southern California that were recorded using the Wood-Anderson seismograph and whose epicentres were less than 600 km (373 miles) from the location of the seismograph. Present-day seismographs, however, may be calibrated to compute Richter magnitudes, and modern methods for measuring earthquake magnitude have been developed to produce results that remain consistent with those measured using the Richter scale.