Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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geology | Yes | No | No | No |
moment magnitude scale | Yes | No | No | No |
geology (noun) | moment magnitude scale (noun) |
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a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks | a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 (a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake |