Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Tracking Tremors: A Brief History of the Richter Scale

In the study of natural disasters?be they tornadoes, hurricanes, snowpacolyses, or Florida on a weekday?the event?s magnitude is just as vital to our understanding as its duration and frequency. Hurricanes and tornadoes are measured by class, blizzards along the Winter Wonderland-Killstorm demarcation. Earthquakes, of course, are measured by how much energy they release?a system better known as the Richter Scale.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/WEfzqZO4bIs/tracking-tremors-a-brief-history-of-the-richter-scale-484911351

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