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… ...

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 ...

The Richter scale is a more objective, quantitative basis of measuring earthquakes than the other widely-used standard, the 12-point Mercalli scale, the US Geological Survey says. The Richter scale ...

Earthquakes are measured in the Richter magnitude scale, in which a number quantifies the amount of seismic energy released.

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.

But what does that mean? What is a Richter scale? Charles F. Richter, of the California Institute of Technology, developed the scale in 1935. The Richter scale is used to rate an earthquake's ...

What’s wrong with the Richter scale? The Richter magnitude scale was proposed in the 1930s by a team of Californian seismologists led by Charles Francis Richter, and was largely based on the ...

Richter's scale was a first -- important in that it provided seismologists with a standardized means of measuring earthquakes where there was none -- but hardly the last word.