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 ...

The Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other ... the size of earthquakes occurring in southern California. The logarithmic earthquake magnitude scale used relatively high-frequency data ...

This scale, a logarithmic measurement system employed in seismology, quantitatively gauges the energy or size unleashed by an earthquake. Today, let's explore the genesis of the Richter Scale.

Charles Richter. That scale was found to be inaccurate for very large earthquakes. The moment magnitude scale is logarithmic — that is, each whole number of magnitude represents about a 30-fold ...

It comes after a similar 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck last week near the island of Kasos. This latest tremor struck the north of Crete at 6.19am local time (3.19am GMT) today, and holidaymakers are ...