PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - In scientific fields, numbers are everywhere. Knowing what those numbers mean is easier to understand in some cases, and in other cases, not so much. An earthquake's magnitude, on ...

Earthquakes are becoming increasingly frequent. On Sunday morning, four earthquakes struck parts of India, Myanmar, and Tajikistan within just one hour, sending tremors across central and South Asia.

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with Mw or Mw, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on ...

4.8 Earthquake In New Jersey Rattles New York Metro Area NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 5: In this photo illustration, an emergency alert is displayed from the national Emergency Broadcast System warning ...

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake rocked southern Alaska in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The epicenter of the quake was in the Gulf of Alaska, about 174 miles southeast of Kodiak, Alaska, according to ...

How do we measure the strength of earthquakes like the one that occurred off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, July 29? The earthquake was recorded as having a magnitude of 8.8, ...

The moment magnitude scale was introduced in 1979 by Tom Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori as a successor to the Richter scale and is used by seismologists to compare the energy released by earthquakes.