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.


'Response to Second Award of the Medal of the Seismological Society of America', Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 1977, 67, 1245

Charles Francis Richter Quotes

Here I turned to Dr. Gutenberg, who made the natural suggestion to plot amplitudes logarithmically. This improved the situation, at least in...

Here I turned to Dr. Gutenberg, who made the natural suggestion to plot amplitudes logarithmically. This improved the situation, at least in...

Here I turned to Dr. Gutenberg, who made the natural suggestion to plot amplitudes logarithmically. This improved the situation, at least in...

Here I turned to Dr. Gutenberg, who made the natural suggestion to plot amplitudes logarithmically. This improved the situation, at least in...