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Charles Francis Richter

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Charles Francis Richter

Mathematics

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Charles Francis Richter's Degrees

PhD Mathematics California Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at the California Institute of Technology.

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Charles Francis Richter's Published Works

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Frequency of Earthquakes in California (1944) (3204)
Seismicity of the Earth and associated phenomena (1950) (2066)
Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration (1942) (1128)
An instrumental earthquake magnitude scale (1935) (975)
Magnitude and Energy of Earthquakes (1936) (838)
Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration(Second paper) (1956) (758)
Seismicity of the Earth (1970) (755)
Relationship between seismicity and geologic structure in the Southern California region (1965) (231)
On Seismic Waves (1939) (80)
Materials for the study of deep-focus earthquakes (SECOND PAPER) (1936) (50)
P' AND THE EARTH'S CORE. (1938) (46)
Depth and geographical distribution of deep-focus earthquakes (1938) (42)
The Desert Hot Springs earthquakes and their tectonic environment (1958) (34)
SEISMICITY OF THE EARTH(SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER) (1945) (33)
Progress Report, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1950 (1951) (26)
Mechanisms of the aftershocks of the Kern County, California, earthquake of 1952 (1958) (26)
New evidence for a change in physical conditions at depths near 100 kilometers (1939) (23)
Discussion of paper by V. I. Keylis-Borok and L. N. Malinovskaya, ‘One regularity in the occurrence of strong earthquakes’ (1964) (21)
Seismic waves from atomic bomb tests (1946) (19)
Seismicity of the earth and associated phenomena, Howard Tatel (1950) (19)
Calculation of small distances (1943) (18)
Depth and geographical distribution of deep-focus earthquakes: Second paper (1939) (15)
Velocities of P at short distances (1950) (13)
A study of blasting recorded in Southern California (1931) (13)
The earthquake in Santa Monica Bay, California, on August 30, 1930 (1932) (13)
Transversely aligned seismicity and concealed structure. (1969) (12)
A second study of blasting recorded in Southern California (1933) (11)
Deep-focus earthquakes in the Mediterranean region (1948) (11)
True knot in the umbilical cord causing death of monoamniotic twins in a primipara before labor. (1947) (10)
The Walker Pass earthquakes and structure of the Southern Sierra Nevada (1949) (10)
The Manix (California) earthquake of April 10, 1947 (1947) (10)
Apparent origin time of S̄ (1943) (10)
Instrumental study of the Manix Earthquakes (1951) (8)
Minimal recorded earthquakes (1948) (8)
Recent earthquakes near Whittier, California (1931) (7)
On supposed discontinuities in the mantle of the Earth (1931) (7)
New Dimensions in Seismology: Earthquakes are characterized by geographical position, instant of occurrence, depth, and magnitude. (1958) (7)
Comments on paper by B. Isacks, J. Oliver, and L. R. Sykes, ‘Seismology and the new global tectonics’ (1969) (6)
Possible Seismicity of the Nacimiento Fault, California (1969) (5)
Local Bulletin of Earthquakes in the Southern California Region 1 January 1963 to 31 December 1966 (1967) (5)
Earthquakes and nuclear detonations. (1970) (4)
Seismic Waves in the Core of the Earth (1938) (4)
Earthquakes in Owens Valley, California, January-February, 1959 (1960) (4)
Comparison of Block and Arc Tectonics in Japan with Those of Some Other Regions. (1960) (4)
Second Award of the Medal of the Seismological Society of America (1977) (4)
THE TEMPERATURE CORRECTION IN THE HYDROMETER METHOD OF MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF SOILS (1931) (3)
Mathematical questions in seismology (1943) (3)
Earthquake study in southern California, 1944 (1945) (3)
Recent results of earthquake study in Southern California (1943) (3)
Magnitude of the Inglewood, California, earthquake of June 21, 1920 (1970) (3)
Observed times of the Montana earthquakes, 1935 (1938) (2)
Earthquake study in southern California, 1947 (1948) (2)
The Walnut, California, earthquakes of July-August, 1959 (1960) (2)
Earthquake near Whittier, California, January 29, 1941 (1942) (2)
Progress Report, Seismological Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, 1957 (1958) (2)
Earthquake study in southern California, 1945 (1946) (2)
Body waves in inhomogeneous media (1958) (2)
The Hydrogen Atom with a Spinning Electron in Wave Mechanics. (1927) (2)
Earthquake study in southern California, 1948 (1949) (1)
Earthquake study in southern California, 1946 (1947) (1)
The Alaskan Earthquake (1964) (1)
Earthquake of January 28, 1931 (1931) (0)
The Seismological Laboratory and Earthquake Study (1948) (0)
Earthquakes and Associated Phenomena in the Alpide Belt (1946) (0)
Seismicity of Circum-Pacific Belt: ABSTRACT (1962) (0)
Interview with Charles Richter (1979) (0)
Quantum Theory of the Spinning Electron (0)
Seismicity of the Earth (Supplementary Paper) (1946) (0)

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