A 4.0 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck the NCR, Gurgaon region with its epicentre in New Delhi.
One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter Scale, but the system is no longer used today. In fact, the Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other magnitude ...
What this means is that for each whole number you go up on the magnitude scale, the amplitude of the ground motion recorded by a seismograph goes up ten times. Using this scale, a magnitude 5 ...
How do you measure the size of a volcanic eruption? Just as seismologists measure the size of an earthquake using the Richter scale, volcanologists use an eruption magnitude scale called the ...