A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather ...

Magnitude is measured using a machine called a seismometer which produces a seismograph, and the Richter scale indicates how powerful the quake is on a scale of 1-10.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter Scale jolted the Northern Sumatra region of Indonesia in the early hours of Sunday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.

In fact, according to Hokie Sports, Wednesday night was not even the first time a seismograph was set off thanks to the reaction to the lead single from Metallica’s 1991 self-titled fifth album ...

It’s since been reported that seismographs detected an earthquake at the stadium after fans piled in to catch the legendary group perform their biggest hits.

Metallica finally visits Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium on tour, sets off Richter scale for 'Enter Sandman' Virginia Tech adopted the band's hit as its team intro music 25 years ago By Robby Kalland ...

Seismographs are usually used to measure when pieces of the earth slam into each other, but they’re pretty good at measuring whenever Metallica is on the stage.

It's safe to say that Metallica 's most recent show "rocked" after fans helped to set off a response to their music that kept local seismographs active. But if you see where the show was held and ...

Seismographs are used to detect and record the vibrations caused by earthquakes. The moment magnitude scale, which builds upon Richter’s ideas, measures the energy released at the earthquake’s ...

Today, the scale is only used for measuring small earthquakes recorded locally in California, where it was developed, because of accuracy issues. USGS notes, “As more seismograph stations were ...

A NUMBER of workers1 have noted that distant earthquakes are registered on automatic water stage recorders operated on deep wells. In each of these cases, the time scale was so small that the ...