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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

When the Cape Mendocino earthquake struck on April 25, 1992, magnitude was not the only parameter of interest to seismologists. Until Charles Richter developed a magnitude scale, the primary method of ...

I Felt by very few people; barely noticeable. II Felt by a few people, especially on upper floors. III Noticeable indoors, especially on upper floors, but may not be recognized as an earthquake. IV ...

Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor the seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake strikes. Scientists used the Richter Scale for many years but now largely ...