Seismology
In Our Time: Science
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What's the Biggest Earthquake?
A magnitude five is 30 times bigger than a magnitude four. A magnitude nine is 30 to the power of four, which I'm afraid I can't do in my head,. If anyone has a calculator, please feel free to calculate that. Using this technology, we can look for these faults underground. It's probably not surprising that it was a really big technology used by the oil and gas industry to find reservoirs for drilling. And now as we're coming to this energy transition, I think this technology will have a really big role in things like carbon capture and storage.
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