“We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.Quote by Charles Francis RichterTopics: Quotes about Charles Francis RichterShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike...#Charles Francis Richter
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice...#Charles Francis Richter
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.#Charles Francis Richter
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were...#Charles Francis Richter
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary...#Charles Francis Richter
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it...#Charles Francis Richter
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the...#Charles Francis Richter
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10...#Charles Francis Richter
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final...#Charles Francis Richter