A new way of measuring earthquakes could reveal where and when they will strike, scientists have suggested. Researchers said their work looking at fault lines could help unlock the ‘holy grail’ of ...

A new way of measuring earthquakes could reveal where and when they will strike, scientists have suggested. Researchers said their work looking at fault lines could help unlock the ‘holy grail ...

So why do geologists talk about earthquakes this way? Why not use a scale that operates more like the ones used to measure weight, or length, or temperature, or any number of other natural phenomena?

A new measure that compares earthquake-related fatalities to a country’s population size concludes that Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Iran and Portugal have experienced the greatest ...

There are different ways of measuring an earthquake's magnitude which makes knowing the true strength nearly impossible to determine.

Researchers in a nationwide study of earthquakes will soon place new instruments beneath Maryland and other eastern states as they seek to learn more about what causes them and where they might ...

So why do geologists talk about earthquakes this way? Why not use a scale that operates more like the ones used to measure weight, or length, or temperature, or any number of other natural phenomena?

The Richter scale was developed in the 1935 by seismologists Charles Francis Richter and Beno Gutenberg as a way of measuring the magnitude of earthquakes.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 2.0 magnitude quake shook close to Huntington ...

Now, there’s a perfectly good reason for some people to use a logarithmic scale — it’s a useful way for scientists to deal with measuring a phenomenon, like an earthquake, in which a large ...