Drs Quote by Charles Francis Richter

“With each integer on the Richter scale, there is a tenfold increase in the number of earthquakes that occur annually. On average, there is…

— Marcia Bjornerud

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis.…

— Charles Francis Richter

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

— Charles Francis Richter

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

— Dan Quayle

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

— Charles Francis Richter

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.

— Charles Francis Richter

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved…

— Charles Francis Richter

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in…

— Charles Francis Richter

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending…

— Charles Francis Richter

“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.”

— Robert Burnham

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

— John Lyall

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity,…

— Charles Darwin