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As an analyst for a regional disaster-relief agency, you are preparing a briefing comparing a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 to a minor one of magnitude 4.0. To describe the scale of the disaster, you compare their intensities using the formula I=10RI = 10^R. The ratio of their intensities is 107.0104.0\frac{10^{7.0}}{10^{4.0}}, which simplifies to 103{}10^3. This means the magnitude 7.0 earthquake was ____ times as intense as the magnitude 4.0 earthquake.

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