Scientists no longer rely on the the Richter scale to measure an earthquake's power. Here's how earthquakes are measured, and why a 7.1 quake is worse than you might imagine.

The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 were recorded also by earthquake-monitoring stations around New York.

Artist Converts Seismogram of Japanese Earthquake Into Sculpture. Luke Jerram converts data from March's devastating temblor into a 3-D-printed sculpture. A 3-D-printed sculpture of ...

This seismogram shows a 24-hour record of how much the ground moves at Weston Observatory in Weston, Massachusetts. Viewing other seismic stations will show you how much the ground moves in those ...

A massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, sent shock waves across the ground, triggering an estimated magnitude 3.3-4.5 earthquake.

The seismogram above records seismic activity worldwide. Each horizontal line is one hour of time. The lowermost horizontal line on the seismogram is recording the latest activity. The time units on ...

“We have put up six seismogram towers in the Joshimath,” said Dr OP Mishra, director of the National Centre for Seismology. There was already one seismogram tower set up in Joshimath in 1991.