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 the public.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes - Charles Francis Richter
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
- Charles Francis Richter
I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph. - Charles Francis Richter
I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. - Charles Francis Richter
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations. - Charles Francis Richter
it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. - Charles Francis Richter
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it. - Charles Francis Richter
My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. - Charles Francis Richter
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. - Charles Francis Richter
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. - Charles Francis Richter
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
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