(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 ...
(WHTM) – Residents along much of the East Coast felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter ...
Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists can do is map the hidden layers beneath the surface that control how ...
One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter Scale, but the system is no longer used today. The Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other magnitude scales that are ...