Question

Task1 The earthquake that hit Haiti wasa magnitude 16 in strngth.False​

Answer 1

Ответ:

The 2010 Haiti earthquake is a high-fatality natural disaster that struck on 12 January at 4:53 pm local time (UTC-5). The epicenter of the earthquake was located 22 km southwest of the capital of the Republic of Haiti Port-au-Prince, the hypocenter at a depth of 13 km. After the main shock with a magnitude of 7, many repeated shocks were recorded, of which 15 with a magnitude of more than 5.

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Answer 2

False. The statement is not true. Earthquakes cannot have a magnitude of 16 on the Richter scale or any other scale used to measure earthquake strength. The Richter scale typically ranges from 0 to 10, with each whole number increase representing a tenfold increase in amplitude of the seismic waves and approximately 31.6 times more energy release. A magnitude 16 earthquake would be many orders of magnitude stronger than anything ever recorded and would likely be catastrophic on a global scale. In reality, the strongest earthquakes ever recorded have been around magnitude 9.0 to 9.5, such as the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile. The earthquake in Haiti in 2010, for example, had a magnitude of approximately 7.0.