“Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.Quote by Charles Francis RichterTopics: Quotes about Charles Francis RichterShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument...#Charles Francis Richter
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it...#Charles Francis Richter
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically...#Charles Francis Richter
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary...#Charles Francis Richter
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could...#Charles Francis Richter
