magnitude
Example Sentences
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Japan ordered all its nuclear power plant reactors to be shut down in 2011 after a magnitude 9 earthquake and massive tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
From BBC
Typically, one earthquake per year reaches a magnitude of 8.0 or higher, while around 15 others fall within the magnitude 7 range on the Richter scale, which measures the amount of energy released.
From Science Daily
Eastern Mindanao was rocked by a pair of earthquakes of 7.4 and 6.7 magnitude in October that killed at least eight people.
From Barron's
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai talked up the magnitude of the company’s AI push on the day the new Gemini model launched.
Perhaps the most sobering element of the game was how in control St Mirren were in the second half of a game of such magnitude.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
