At 16:53 local time on January 12, the Caribbean nation of Haiti was struck by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale. In a country routinely referred to as the poorest in the western ...

Tragic news: Haiti earthquake death toll rises to 2,200 ... which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale, left over "2,100 dead and thousands more injured." Dominique Guerrier has a master's degree ...

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.

One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter Scale, but the system is no longer used today. The Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other magnitude scales that ...

Most commonly, scientists refer to an earthquake's magnitude as a measure of its strength. Geologists once used the Richter scale, but that measure is considered outdated and is no longer used.

Earthquake strength is registered ... Until the 1970s, a different scale was used, one developed by an American seismologist, Charles Richter. That scale was found to be inaccurate for very ...

The scale helps assign a numerical value to quantify the amount of seismic energy (the energy of waves that travel through the Earth) released by an earthquake. Charles F. Richter was born April ...

The inventor was born on April 26, 1900. The Richter Scale measures the amount of energy released by an earthquake by measuring the magnitude or seismic waves produced by an earthquake.