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Scale Quotes by Charles Francis Richter
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification…
- I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.
- 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.'
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