moment magnitude scale

1. 1.

   a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake

   Broaderscale

   geology

Questions about moment magnitude scale

What does moment magnitude scale mean?

moment magnitude scale means "a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake".

Is moment magnitude scale a common word?

moment magnitude scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.