Can an earthquake be measured?
Earthquakes are measured the use of the Richter scale. It used to be developed in 1935 by Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg at the California Institute of Technology. This scale uses numbers from 1 to 10 to measure the intensity of an earthquake. Each enlarge of one factor on the scale skill a ten-fold increase in the strength of the earthquake. So a degree 5.0 earthquake is ten times stronger than a stage 4 earthquake. The Richter scale works by measuring vibrations around the epicentre of an earthquake.
