Charles Francis Richter Quotes

Charles Francis Richter — American Scientist born on April 26, 1900, died on April 20, 1985

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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, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

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.

Charles Francis Richter Quotes

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