“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
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were...#Charles Francis Richter
From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will...#Engineering
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike...#Charles Francis Richter
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a...#Charles Francis Richter
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many...#Charles Francis Richter
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10...#Charles Francis Richter
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.#Charles Francis Richter
