Jhajjar, a small town in Jhajjar district of Haryana in northern India, has witnessed four earthquakes ranging from magnitude ...

Scientists no longer rely on the the Richter scale to measure an earthquake's power. Here's how earthquakes are measured, and why a 7.1 quake is worse than you might imagine.

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 Even though it’s outdated, the term is still used often when discussing earthquakes.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 is logarithmic, with each step equivalent to multiplying by 10 to the power of 1.5. This means a 6.0 magnitude earthquake has approximately 32 times more energy than a 5.0 quake, and a 7 ...

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The Richter scale caught on, both with scientists and the general public. Every time there’s an earthquake, news media will announce its intensity as “so and so on the Richter Scale.” ...

The Richter scale was developed in 1935 by American seismologist Charles Richter (1891-1989) as a way of quantifying the magnitude, or strength, of earthquakes. Richter, ...

The Richter Scale measures quakes in a range from 0 to 9. On the scale, each increase in number represents an earthquake 10 times more powerful.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.7 on the Richter scale struck Delhi on Friday evening around 7:55 pm. The epicentre was in Haryana's Jhajjar.

Earthquake intensity. Minor: 2.5 or lower on the Richter scale. It is seldom felt, but can be recorded by a seismograph. Light: 2.5 to 5.4. These are often felt, but usually cause only minor damage ...