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 ...

Odds are you haven't used logarithms since your teacher introduced them to you in high school mathematics, if you can remember back that far. But for investors who count on price charts to gauge stock ...

In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed the revenues of the top 60 Forbes 500 companies using both linear and logarithmic scales. The log scale spread out the bulk ...

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, ...

The first practical scale for measuring earthquakes was developed by geologist Charles Richter at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s, and the scale that most scientists use today ...

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 ...

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 ...

A logarithmic scale captures the whole universe Unmismoobjetivo/Pablo Carlos Budassi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) The universe is mind-bogglingly huge and increasingly growing larger, but that ...