An American seismologist whose 1935 magnitude scale, developed with his mentor Beno Gutenberg, became the public name for earthquake strength worldwide, even after the moment magnitude scale replaced it as the working professional standard in 1979. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceOverpeck, Ohio, United States 1 Defining ContributionCo-created, with Beno Gutenberg at Caltech, the Richter magnitude scale, presented in his landmark 1935 paper, which became the standard measure of earthquake strength until the moment magnitude scale succeeded it in 1979, and replaced the older, more subjective Mercalli intensity scale. 1 Connections
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Richter revised the Wood-Neumann modified Mercalli scale again in 1956, proposing the name modified Mercalli scale of 1956 to distinguish it from his own magnitude scale.
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Charles Francis Richter (; April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist.
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was an American seismologist and physicist.
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