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しん 地震
Noun
1. seismic moment
Wikipedia definition
2. Seismic momentSeismic moment is a quantity used by earthquake seismologists to measure the size of an earthquake. The scalar seismic moment is defined by the equation, where is the shear modulus of the rocks involved in the earthquake is the area of the rupture along the geologic fault where the earthquake occurred (in cm), and is the average displacement on (in cm). thus has dimensions of energy, measured in dyne centimeters.
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