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Is the magnitude of an earthquake related to the depth below the surface at which the quake occurs? Let x be the magnitude of an earthquake (on the Richter scale), and let y be the depth (in kilometers )of the earthquake below the surface at the epicenter. The following is based on information taken from the national earthquake information service of the U.S. Geographical Survey. Additional data may be found by visiting the website for the service.
x 2.9 4.2 3.3 4.5 2.6 3.2 3.4
y 5.0 10.0 11.2 10.0 7.9 3.9 5.5
test on correlation using 0.05 significance