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Earthquake Image Glossary


 


Glossary of earthquake terms

 

plot of standard deviation
(Image courtesy of Robert Niles)

Standard deviation
The standard deviation is how much a set of data is different from the curve it should make when plotted on a graph. Or, the square root of the average of the squares of deviations about the mean of a set of data. Standard deviation is a statistical measure of spread or variability.

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