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Earthquakes Quotes by Charles Francis Richter
- Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There…
- 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…
- [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…
- If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
- I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.
- 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…
- 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…
- I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
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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… — Charles Francis Richter
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