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Magnitudes on the Richter scale are measured logarithmically, with each whole number increase representing ten times more in measured amplitude.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Magnitudes are corrected for Galactic extinction along the line of sight51.

From Nature • Oct. 15, 2017

Magnitudes are corrected for Galactic extinction along the line of sight51.

From Nature • Oct. 15, 2017

Wherin, the people knew no farder, of Magnitudes vse, but in Plaines: and the Philosophers, of thẽ, had no feet hearers, or Scholers: farder to disclose vnto, then of flat, plaine Geometrie.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John

Magnitudes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is the only surviving work.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith