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 * This is the rock Schist. || [[image:http://oursciencepage.com/metamorphic-schist.jpg]] ||
 * Hornblende, Feldspar || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/GarnetCrystalUSGOV.jpg width="339" height="316"]]
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Seismologists indicate the size of an earthquake in units of magnitude. There are many different ways that magnitude is measured from seismograms because each method only works over a limited range of magnitudes and with different types of seismometers. Some methods are based on body waves (which travel deep within the structure of the earth), some based on surface waves (which primarily travel along the uppermost layers of the earth), and some based on completely different methodologies. However, all of the methods are designed to agree well over the range of magnitudes where they are reliable. Earthquake magnitude is a logarithmic measure of earthquake size. In simple terms, this means that at the same distance from the earthquake, the shaking will be 10 times as large during a magnitude 5 earthquake as during a magnitude 4 earthquake. The total amount of energy released by the earthquake, however, goes up by a factor of 32. || ||
 * || Current Event Feb 2011 New Zealand Major Earthquake ||
 * Magnitude || a. 6.3
 * Impact || $12 billion, 154 fatalities confirmed, Christchurch ||
 * Cause || The Pacific plate is gradually being pushed beneath the Australian plate, which caused the massive earthquake


 * Bruce Campbell, G.A.H. Walker and S. young discovered these planets. Planets are extremely faint light sources compared to their parent stars. At visible wavelengths, they usually have less than a millionth of their parent star's brightness. It is difficult to detect such a faint light source, and furthermore the parent star causes a glare that tends to wash it out.

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