Two hundred years ago, Missouri was rocked by an earthquake so severe it made the Mississippi River flow backward and set off church bells in Boston more than 1,000 miles away. These details help ...

Planets that exist in the solar system have a geometric series relationship with the distance of adjacent planets if they are arranged in order from the sun closest to the sun, the ratio falling ...

This weekend, a 3.3-magnitude earthquake rattled San Francisco ever so slightly. The small quake, like so many before it, passed, and San Franciscans went back to conveniently ignoring their seismic ...

Shortly after it occurred, scientists said there was a slight chance Monday’s magnitude-4.4 earthquake in Los Angeles may have been a “foreshock” of a bigger one yet to come. That’s obviously getting ...

Sir, In Jude Webber’s article on the Mexico earthquake (“Mexican death toll hits 90 from massive earthquake”, September 10), she reports that quakes are measured on a scale of 0 to 10. More precisely, ...

Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...