Two serious earthquakes struck Europe this morning, June 3, resulting in a teenage girl's death in Turkey, and dozens of ...

June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to ...

It comes after a similar 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck last week near the island of Kasos. This latest tremor struck the ...

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration approved “improper and unlawful” no-bid contracts for food and transportation services as ...

the USGS forecasts about a 23% chance of East Tennessee experiencing a magnitude 3 or higher aftershock in the next week. "BUT remember that the scale is logarithmic, so a 3.0 is TEN TIMES weaker ...

the moment magnitude scale offers consistency across all sizes and types of quakes. Still, the Richter Scale remains widely recognized by the public. It introduced the concept of a logarithmic ...

The recent 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, which sent tremors across Thailand and neighbouring countries, has highlighted the importance of understanding how earthquake strength is measured. The ...

As the sound intensity can vary in such large orders of magnitude, the decibel scale is used to more effectively compare these values. The key to note here is that this relationship is no longer ...

How earthquake intensity changes with magnitude The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the logarithmic Richter scale, where each whole-number increase represents a tenfold increase in the ...