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'On the Richter scale': Listen to newly-released 911 calls from Givaudan explosion
The Courier Journal obtained more than 50 calls to 911 reporting the Givaudan explosion on Nov. 12. Here's what we found.
The Irrawaddy7d
Earthquake Destroyed 50,000 Houses in Central Myanmar: Junta
New official figures give a sense of the scale of the devastation in Naypyitaw, Mandalay, Sagaing, Bago, and Shan State, but ...
Hindustan Times4d
Richter scale, seismographs: How the magnitude of earthquakes is measured
One such system that gained universal recognition is the Richter Scale. Developed in 1935 by Charles Richter, the Richter Scale introduced a mathematical approach to measuring local earthquakes.
ARY News5d
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Islamabad, KP cities
ISLAMABAD: An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted Islamabad and cities of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), ARY News ...