Wanna know more about earthquakes and the Richter scale?
Today we talk about how earthquakes occur and how do we measure earthquakes, with an emphasis on the Richter scale. Here you will understand the history of this scale of magnitude and how we determine the magnitude of an earthquake on this logarithmic scale. We also talk about where this information comes from: what are seismic waves and how these waves are detected by seismograph.
Animation of the vertical seismograph -
IRIS Earthquake Science - • Horizontal Seismograph...
Animation of the principles of a drum-style vertical seismograph station - IRIS Earthquake Science - • Vertical Seismograph
beno gutemberg By Unknown - www.egu.eu/awards-medals/portr... Geosciences Union, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Charles Francis Richter By en:Caltech photograph - earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/t..., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
San Andreas Fault - USGS/Bay Area Earthquake Alliance - • Earthquakes - Shock Wa...
Magnitude / intensity comparison between Mercalli and Richter scale, USGS, earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/top...
Motion of earthquakes -
IRIS Earthquake Science - • 3-component Seismogram...
hipocentro e epicentro - By AnsateSam Hocevar (original author; this is a derivative work) - Epicenter.png:, CC BY-SA 1.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
s wave Wolfram
• Propagation of Seismic...
love waves Wolfram
• Propagation of Seismic...
p wave Wolfram
• Propagation of Seismic...