Charles Francis Richter Quotes

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Here I turned to Dr. Gutenberg, who made the natural suggestion to plot amplitudes logarithmically. This improved the situation, at least in appearance. I was lucky, because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Charles Francis Richter

Since my first attachment to seismology, I have had the horror of [earthquake] predictions and of predictors. Journalists and the general public rush to any suggestion of earthquake prediction like hogs toward a full trough.

Charles Francis Richter

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.

Charles Francis Richter