Hiroo Kanamori

Japanese seismologist

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In Richter scale: Moment magnitude scale
…late 1970s by Japanese seismologist Hiroo Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks, became the most popular measure of earthquake magnitude worldwide during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It was designed to produce a more-accurate measure of the total energy released by an earthquake. The scale abandoned the…
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In moment magnitude
…the 1970s by Japanese seismologist Hiroo Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks. Calculations of an earthquake’s size using the moment magnitude scale are tied to an earthquake’s seismic moment (M₀) rather than to the amplitudes of seismic waves recorded by seismographs. The moment magnitude scale is the only scale…
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