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A light earthquake near here measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale rattled residents across a wide swath of Nebraska and Kansas on Sunday afternoon.

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 ...

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The tremor occurred in offshore waters near Aceh province, a region prone ...

(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 ...