Discussion
the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes is?
Answer: A
Charles Richter.
He devised the scale at the California Institute of Technology in 1935 with Beno Gutenberg. It is logarithmic: each whole number is a tenfold increase in wave amplitude and about thirty-two times the energy.
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