A weak earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale was recorded in Segamat at 4.24 am today, the fourth to hit the district ...

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 ...

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The tremor, reported ...

Magnitude measures the energy released at the source of the earthquake, the U. S. Geological Survey says. It replaces the old ...

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… ...

Another minor earthquake struck Johor in the early hours today, with tremors reported in parts of the state, according to the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia).

The Richter scale is the most widely recognized way of indicating how powerful an earthquake was. The Richter scale is the most widely recognized way of indicating how powerful an earth-quake was.

Earthquake strength is registered on the moment magnitude scale, which measures how much energy was released when the rocks along a fault moved during the quake.

On Aug 24, MetMalaysia confirmed that a 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Segamat at 6.13am, followed by a second tremor at 9 ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- An aftershock measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Friday, the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy ...