Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren reveals the “original sin” and decades-long miscalculation that led to this moment — ...

A tsunami warning was also issued following this previous earthquake. But as the incidents make headlines, questions are rising on how serious a 5.8-magnitude or a 6.2-magnitude is on the scale.

Lifestyle Weather How severe is a magnitude-6 earthquake as Crete given tsunami warning The earthquake struck off the coast of Crete in Greece this morning, with a magnitude of 6.1.

Unlike the Richter Scale, which was best suited for small, local events, the moment magnitude scale offers consistency across all sizes and types of quakes. Still, the Richter Scale remains widely ...

The moment magnitude scale measures the movement of rock along the fault and accurately measures larger earthquakes, which can last for minutes and affect a much larger area; the Richter scale did ...

The moment magnitude scale, as it is known, replaced one developed by an American seismologist, Charles Richter, that was used until the 1970s. The Richter scale was found to be inaccurate for ...

In fact, the Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other magnitude scales that are more accurate. Even though it’s outdated, the term is still used often when discussing earthquakes.

The scale has no upper limit, but no fault long enough to generate a magnitude 10 earthquake is known to exist, according to USGS. In some cases, earthquakes can be so small as to have a negative ...

According to the moment magnitude scale, which is used to measure earthquake magnitude and has replaced the previously used and well-known Richter scale, it was considered a "light" earthquake.