magnitude
Example Sentences
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A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 in Russia brought tsunami alerts to a wide swath of the Pacific.
From Los Angeles Times
“The magnitude was much worse than expected,” Morgan Stanley wrote in April, after “Liberation Day.”
By then, the supernova should have faded by more than two magnitudes, making it easier to fully study the faint host galaxy and confirm exactly how much light came from the supernova itself.
From Science Daily
The two largest earthquakes occurred just hours apart near Loch Lyon in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, when a 3.7 magnitude tremor was registered on 20 October, followed by one of 3.6.
From BBC
For years, they pumped the putrid fluids deep into the ground—and triggered hundreds of earthquakes, some with a magnitude of over 5.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
