“There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'Quote by Charles Francis RichterTopics: Quotes about Charles Francis RichterShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could...#Charles Francis Richter
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at...#Charles Francis Richter
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final...#Charles Francis Richter
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium,...#Charles Francis Richter
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike...#Charles Francis Richter
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically...#Charles Francis Richter
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the...#Charles Francis Richter
