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4 January, 11:35

What's a scale used to measure the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake?

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  1. 4 January, 15:01
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    The Richter magnitude scale was developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology as a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes. The magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs
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