Map: 3.5-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southern California
A minor, 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...
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How Do We Measure Earthquake Magnitude?
Another scale is based on the physical size of the earthquake fault and the amount of slip that occurred. Then there are also measures of earthquake shaking intensity. The intensity from one ...
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Earthquakes happen all the time, you just can't feel them. A guide to how they're measured
How the strength of quakes is measured has changed over the years, so you'll see references to the Richter Scale, earthquake magnitude and intensity. Here's a quick primer on what they mean and ...
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Map: 3.8-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes off the Coast of Maine
Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of ...