The Richter scale rates the amount of energy released from a single earthquake, letting us know the magnitude of the disaster. A seismograph is what scientists use to actually measure the earthquake ...

Recently, the people of the city of Kolkata witnessed the earthquake for a short time; individuals ran out of high-rise offices to the streets in panic. Thanks to the internet, we’ve all seen it.

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.

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 times ...

It’s more surprising than earth shaking for those learning for the first time that the internationally acclaimed inventor of the Richter Scale of earthquake measurement was from Butler County. On ...

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.

LSU pulled off an earth-shaking win over Alabama in Baton Rouge over the weekend, outlasting the Crimson Tide in an overtime thriller to gain the upper hand in the SEC West. No, seriously. The Earth ...