An abbreviation for megawatt, a million watts A unit used for the measurement of electrical power
Megawatt; a unit for describing how much electricity a power plant can generate The Acid Rain Program includes virtually all units in the US that can generate over 25 MW
One million watts For example, the average daily usage for the line from Bethel to Norwalk is 400mW The capacity as it stands today is 1,360mW The proposal for Phase One of the NU plan would provide 3,560mW See our reality check of true usage
moment magnitude, based on inverting the waveforms for the moment of theearthquake which is equal to the rigidity of the fault times the average amount of slipon the fault times the amount of fault area that slipped
The seismic moment of an earthquake, converted to a magnitude scale that roughly parallels the original Richter magnitude scale However, since it is not based on the same measurements as Richter (local or surface-wave) magnitudes, the different magnitudes do not always agree, particularly for very large quakes Because it relates directly to the energy released by an earthquake, it has become the standard in modern seismology