(WHTM) — April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s, the field of ...

THE destructive power of earthquakes is measured in different ways, but the one most people have heard of is the Richter scale. Here’s how the force is calculated – and what it means if you are caught ...

(WHTM) — Residents in Pennsylvania felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. Earthquake reported in New Jersey, tremors felt in Pennsylvania One of the most commonly ...

Charles F. Richter developed the Richter Scale in 1935. The Richter scale is logarithmic. Every point on the scale represents a ten times intensity increase. A 7 Richter scale earthquake is ten times ...

In the study of natural disasters—be they tornadoes, hurricanes, snowpacolyses, or Florida on a weekday—the event’s magnitude is just as vital to our understanding as its duration and frequency.

Earthquakes are becoming increasingly frequent. On Sunday morning, four earthquakes struck parts of India, Myanmar, and Tajikistan within just one hour, sending tremors across central and South Asia.

OXFORD — Richter Scale is not a concept we hear much anymore during news reports, either predicting earthquakes or reporting on them. In recent years, the “magnitude” of the earthquake is mostly the ...

Recently, Sarah Zhang, a science writer for Wired who calls California’s Bay Area home, had been wondering if the concept of earthquake magnitude—introduced by the development of the Richter scale in ...

What does it mean that Wednesday’s earthquake registered a 4.4? An early morning earthquake woke many in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, registering 4.4 on the Richter scale. But what does that mean?

Earthquake-measuring scale was developed by geologist Charles Richter in the 1930s Los Angeles:The first practical scale for measuring earthquakes was developed by geologist Charles Richter at the ...