(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 fi… ...

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The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake, which hit at about 5:40 a.m. with an epicenter slightly west of Morris Plains ...

A 2.4-magnitude earthquake shook a South Carolina community Wednesday. The S.C. Emergency Management Division said in a ...

The earthquakes happened about 4.78 miles below the surface, the data said. While the exact cause of the earthquakes wasn't yet known, the West Texas area has seen an increased number of ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck Alaska on Monday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The earthquake ...

It registered 9.0 on the Richter scale, which measures the magnitude of the earthquake. Shindo ... government announced a series of countermeasures aimed at reducing the number of deaths by up to 80% ...

Permian Basin was hit by a record number of earthquakes last year. ... The number of West Texas earthquakes above a 2.0 on the Richter scale has increased eightfold between 2017 and 2021. 2017: ...

The earthquakes happened about 4.78 miles below the surface, the data said. While the exact cause of the earthquakes wasn't yet known, the West Texas area has seen an increased number of ...