the Swallow's Nest(pictured), constructed in 1911-1912 and located on top of a 40 meter cliff in Crimea, Ukraine, is a medieval-type castle which has survived an earthquake measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale?
Question 1: The Richter magnitude scale, also known as the local magnitude (ML) scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an ________.
Question 3: It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal ________ of the largest displacement from zero on a Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer output.
Question 4: The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the ________ of waves recorded by seismographs (adjustments are included to compensate for the variation in the distance between the various seismographs and the epicenter of the earthquake).
Question 5: The ________ release of an earthquake, which closely correlates to its destructive power, scales with the 3⁄2 power of the shaking amplitude.
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