An earthquake rattled much of the Northeast on Friday morning, with shaking felt across the New York City metropolitan area and in communities from Baltimore and Philadelphia up through New England.
About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are strong enough ...
The astronomical magnitude system, initially developed by Hipparchus and refined by Ptolemy, quantifies the brightness of celestial objects, with brighter objects having lower magnitudes. Norman R.