Answer the following question given this paragraph: 7. Like the Richter scale, the moment magnitude scale is logarithmic. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan was 9.0 and did tremendous damage. A few months earlier, an 8.8 struck Chile and did much less damage. Why?. Q: What type of scale is the richter scale? Choices: - dimensional - algorithmic - asymmetric - logarithmic A:
Answer:
logarithmic