Earthquake — Moment Magnitude

Scientists usually measure an earthquake's "size" with the moment magnitude scale rather than the older but more famous Richter magnitude scale.

On this occasion, we visualised the relative sizes of some 20th and 21st-century earthquakes by their moment magnitudes. Each circle's area represents its relative energy release, and its label lists its moment magnitude, location, and the year it happened.

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