Hey! This is Fabiana from Geologia da Terra and Learning Geology! Wanna know more about earthquakes and the Richter scale? Today we talk about how earthquakes occur and how do we measure earthquakes, with an emphasis on the Richter scale. Here you will understand the history of this scale of magnitude and how we determine the magnitude of an earthquake on this logarithmic scale. We also talk about where this information comes from: what are seismic waves and how these waves are detected by a sei