The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

The five largest continental transform earthquakes since 2000 all originated on a branch of the main fault—and two researchers predict that the next great earthquake of this type will also get ...

The magnitudes of the two quakes were nearly the same—7.3 in 2021 and 7.4 on March 16—and their maximum intensities both reached upper 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7. Location-wise ...

Very mild tremors were felt in Calcutta on Tuesday morning, as an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck deep inside the Bay of Bengal seabed. The quake occurred at a depth of 91km in ...