magnitude
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A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported at 8 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
How could security understand the magnitude of what was happening and why she needed to be there?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Whenever “Primetime” comes close to a deeper truth, the film backs off entirely, deferring to Pattinson to deliver the intended magnitude.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
This culminated in a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, the largest recorded at Yellowstone since 1975.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Scientists who tried managing energies of the necessary magnitude often ended up with equipment blown to smithereens and laboratories littered with glass shards.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Venezuela was hit by twin earthquakes on 24 June, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 recorded just 39 seconds apart.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tesla and SpaceX shares have traded in the same direction, with similar magnitudes, for the past four days.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“At these magnitudes, half of it time-based just seems too much.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The double quakes — with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 — struck shortly after 6 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
These deficiencies of astrological theory are less visible to the innumerate, who are not likely to concern themselves with mechanisms, and who are seldom interested in comparing magnitudes.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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