English: A doubly logarithmic graph showing the frequency and energy of earthquakes under the Richter scale. Note that the axis are identical, and that the energy contained rises 10-fold more rapidly than the decrease in frequency of occurance.
Graphist note: The novelty about this plot is that only when charted with these particular units are both axis equal, and hence the slope of the lines directly comparable. The slopes differ by a factor of two on a logarithmic scale, hence the 10-fold comment. I am cautious about the data - they were obtained from the en.Wikipedia article, but looks too clean: they appears the product from an analytic (power law) fit, whereas earthquake intensities does not actually follow a power law distribution (see Clauset 2007).
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