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A wet-bulb thermometer and a dry-bulb thermometer are both parts of which meteorological instrument?
 
  A) an anemometer B) a sling psychrometer
  C) a thermistor D) a barometer

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Why is the moment magnitude scale favored over the Richter scale?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

Moment magnitude measures the total energy released during an earthquake. It is calculated by determining the average amount of slip on the fault, the area of the fault surface that slipped, and the strength of the faulted rock.


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