All Charles Francis Richter Quotes
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected.…
According
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Circumstance
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I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or…
Blind
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Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then…
Along
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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
Inevitable
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There…
According
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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…
All
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[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot…
Amplitudes
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Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Active
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If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
Concept
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In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try…
Area
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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact,…
Acceleration
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Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
Charlatans
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If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be…
Affects
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I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.
Earthquakes
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The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It…
Actually Turned
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Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses…
Been
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The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.
Chief
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I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Device
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Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Device
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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to…
Alike
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By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
Characterized
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Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component;…
Acceleration
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For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative…
Amount
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in…
Becomes
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