April 26, 2025, marks the 125th birthday of Cincinnati native Charles Richter, the inventor of the Richter Scale. The seismologist, aka Earth scientist, invented the critical measurement tool to ...

(WHTM) — April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s ...

The Richter Scale is an older method once used for describing the size of earthquakes. The scale was developed by Charles Richter in the 1930s, but USGS says it only worked well on certain ...

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the system was first introduced in the early 1930s by American seismologist and physicist Charles Richter — who collaborated with German ...

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 large earthquakes. The moment magnitude scal ...

(WHTM) — Residents in Pennsylvania felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. Earthquake reported in New Jersey, tremors felt in Pennsylvania One of the most ...