Charles Francis Richter - What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all...

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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Charles Francis Richter

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Es stellte sich natürlich heraus, dass die Größenordnung vorausgesetzt, dass alle Erdbeben bis auf einen konstanten Skalierungsfaktor gleich sind. Und dies erwies sich als näher an der Wahrheit, als wir erwartet hatten.

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