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1 магнитуда
1) Engineering: magnitude (землетрясения)2) Seismology: magnitude( quantitative measure of strength and size of an earthquake, based on wave amplitudes measured by seismographs. see Richter and moment magnitudes, for example)3) Makarov: magnitude (единица измерения силы землетрясения)
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