I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
