Richter's Scale Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man |
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| Author:
| Hough, Susan Elizabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-17328-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itsel
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itsel