What does “moment magnitude” mean, and how do scientists determine the strength of a rupture in the earth? By Henry Fountain Henry Fountain spent a quarter century covering science for The Times. He ...

An earthquake rattled much of the Northeast on Friday morning, with shaking felt across the New York City metropolitan area and in communities from Baltimore and Philadelphia up through New England.

The world can measure earthquakes thanks to Charles Francis Richter, an American seismologist and physicist who invented the Richter Scale in 1935. The inventor was born on April 26, 1900. The Richter ...

One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter Scale, but the system is no longer used today. In fact, the Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other magnitude scales ...

(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 ...

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.

April 26, 2025, marks the 125th birthday of Cincinnati native Charles Richter, the inventor of the Richter Scale. The seismologist, aka Earth scientist, invented the critical measurement tool to help ...

Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist most famously known as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which measures the magnitude of earthquakes. But few people may ...

Earthquakes near the very top of the magnitude scale are difficult for scientists to measure. For one thing, they occur rarely -- once a year or less -- so researchers don't have many chances to ...