Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WHTM) – Residents along much of the East Coast felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. One ...

invented the Richter Scale in 1935. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WHTM) — Residents in Pennsylvania felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. Earthquake ...

(WHTM) – Residents along much of the East Coast felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter ...

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 scales ...