Charles F. Richter developed the Richter Scale in 1935. The Richter scale is logarithmic. Every point on the scale represents a ten times intensity increase. A 7 Richter scale earthquake is ten times ...
Here’s five things you may not know about Richter. Richter was a Buckeye, born in Hamilton near Cincinnati in 1900. After his parents divorced, his grandfather raised him in California. He lived until ...
(WHTM) — April 26 is the birthday of Seismologist Charles Richter, co-creator with Beno Gutenberg of the Richter Scale, which measures the intensity of earthquakes. In the early 1930s, the field of ...