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 a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter ...

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California Geological Survey map released earlier this year depicts just how intense and damaging the shaking from future ...

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 ...