Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

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• Charles Francis Richter:

  Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the

• Charles Francis Richter:

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

• Charles Francis Richter:

  Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period

• Charles Francis Richter:

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

• Charles Francis Richter:

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

• Charles Francis Richter:

  As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem

• Charles Francis Richter:

  By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were

• Charles Francis Richter:

  Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary

• Charles Francis Richter:

  For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so th

• Charles Francis Richter:

  From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will oc