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Magnitudes on the Richter scale are measured logarithmically, with each whole number increase representing ten times more in measured amplitude.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Magnitudes are corrected for Galactic extinction along the line of sight51.

From Nature • Oct. 15, 2017

Magnitudes are corrected for Galactic extinction along the line of sight51.

From Nature • Oct. 15, 2017

Practise hath led Numbers farder, and hath framed them, to take vpon them, the shew of Magnitudes propertie: Which is Incommensurabilitie and Irrationalitie.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John

Rationall Magnitudes are those whose reason may bee expressed by a number of the measure given.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William