Answer:
About 7.94 times
Step-by-step explanation:
The intensity of an earthquake can be found using the formula:
[tex]I=I_0 * 10^M[/tex]
Where
I is the intensity
I_0 is intensity of magnitude 0 earthquake
M is Richter scale magnitude
For first quake, it will be:
[tex]I=I_0 * 10^M\\I=I_0 * 10^{8.2}[/tex]
For the second quake, it will be:
[tex]I=I_0 * 10^{7.3}[/tex]
The times the intensity is more can be found by dividing both, so we have:
[tex]\frac{I_0 * 10^{8.2}}{I_0 * 10^{7.3}}\\=\frac{10^{8.2}}{10^{7.3}}\\=10^{8.2-7.3}\\=10^{0.9}\\=7.94[/tex]
The first earthquake is about 7.94 times the second quake
