what is difference between magnitude and intesity of an earthquake?
By BART78
@BART78 (2927)
Canada
January 16, 2010 2:09am CST
we all heard what strike haiti and every people in town talks about it, i've notice a lot of people and experts mentioned about magnitude and intensity, so i was wondering are there any difference of the two or they just the same? could someone make clarification on this...i really appreciate it..
2 responses
@ajayrocks111 (390)
• India
16 Jan 10
Hi Bart.. there is no difference between earth magnitude and intensity. Both are of same meaning
@nocturn98 (956)
• Venezuela
16 Jan 10
Magnitude is the scale of the amount of shaking that happens at the source of the earthquake. Intensity is the scale of the amount of shaking at a particular location. Different areas will have different intensities of an earthquake.