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Charles Francis Richter

Birthday: April 26, 1900
Deathday: April 20, 1985
Category: American Scientist
Type: Scientist
National: American

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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became...

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be...

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for...

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy...

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers...

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense,...

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of...

I usually point out that most loss of life and...

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of...

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the...

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake...

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then...

In every area of the world where there is earthquake...

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my...

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance...

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil....

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,'...

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active...

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements...

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is...

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are...

We would have been happy if we could have assigned...

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed...

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