Still, the Richter Scale remains widely recognized by the public. It introduced the concept of a logarithmic scale, where each whole-number increase represents a tenfold increase in ground motion ...

It will happen more than 20 years from now, says geophysics professor Ahmet Ercan, a few hours after Naji Giorur's nightmarish predictions of the 7.2 magnitude "harbinger" ...

Developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter, it quantifies the amount of energy released by an earthquake. The scale is logarithmic, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in ...

Did you feel that? Impact of Richter Scale inventor and Ohio native Charles Richter still being felt on 125th birthday in ...

the inventor of the Richter Scale. The seismologist, aka Earth scientist, invented the critical measurement tool to help better understand the magnitude of earthquakes. Who is Charles Richter?