(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 ...

In the study of natural disasters—be they tornadoes, hurricanes, snowpacolyses, or Florida on a weekday—the event’s magnitude is just as vital to our understanding as its duration and frequency.

What does it mean that Wednesday’s earthquake registered a 4.4? An early morning earthquake woke many in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, registering 4.4 on the Richter scale. But what does that mean?

Here’s five things you may not know about Richter. Richter was a Buckeye, born in Hamilton near Cincinnati in 1900. After his parents divorced, his grandfather raised him in California. He lived until ...

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 ...

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.

(WHTM) – Residents along much of the East Coast felt shaking Friday morning as an earthquake struck New Jersey. One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter Scale, but the ...