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.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - In scientific fields, numbers are everywhere. Knowing what those numbers mean is easier to understand in some cases, and in other cases, not so much. An earthquake's magnitude, on ...

Earthquake news: While no immediate reports of casualties or damage were received, authorities are closely monitoring the ...

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 ...

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. By Henry Fountain Earthquake strength ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Since the 1890s, the invention of the seismograph has given scientists an understanding of the intensity and magnitude of earthquakes. In 1935, Charles Richter developed the Richter ...

The Richter Scale was developed in the 1930s by Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to the development of the Richter Scale, it was difficult to measure ...