what are some of the parameters in relation to the moment magnitude scale?
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what was the scale of 2005 qeshm earthquake? 5.8 where did it occur? Qeshm Island off Southern Iran any casualties because of it? 13 People were killed describe in few words the damage it caused? In Zirang, a village on Qeshm, 80 percent of the buildings were demolished. Seven villages experienced extensive damage, and 13 villages were destroyed what is the terminology for the scale which measures the intensity of an earthquake? Moment magnitude scale is there any short definition for it? It is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment (a measure of the work done by the earthquake) is there any theory on it? Yes. Dislocation theory is used to determine part of an earthquake's focal mechanism and to show that a dislocation was indeed equivalent to a double couple who proposed such a theory? Vito Volterra who is he? UNANSWERABLE
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Moment magnitude scale [SEP] Dislocation theory
A double couple model suffices to explain an earthquake's far-field pattern of seismic radiation, but tells us very little about the nature of an earthquake's source mechanism or its physical features. While slippage along a fault was theorized as the cause of earthquakes (other theories included movement of magma, or sudden changes of volume due to phase changes), observing this at depth was not possible, and understanding what could be learned about the source mechanism from the seismic waves requires an understanding of the source mechanism. Modeling the physical process by which an earthquake generates seismic waves required much theoretical development of dislocation theory, first formulated by the Italian Vito Volterra in 1907, with further developments by E.