Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's one thing for the Virginia Tech Hokies to blast Metallica's "Enter Sandman" as the football team's game-day hype song when ...

The metal legends of Metallica are known for delivering a heavy show, but at Virginia Tech, they hit a new high — setting off the Richter scale. Metallica played their first-ever gig at Lane Stadium — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WHTM) – Residents along much of the East Coast felt shaking Friday morning as a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey. One ...

Earthquakes are becoming increasingly frequent. On Sunday morning, four earthquakes struck parts of India, Myanmar, and Tajikistan within just one hour, sending tremors across central and South Asia.

(WHTM) — April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s, the field of ...

One of the most commonly known earthquake-measuring tools is the Richter Scale, but the system is no longer used today. In fact, the Richter scale was replaced in the 1970s by other magnitude scales ...