Richter's Scale
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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 a household word. This work takes the reader into Richter's life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments,
… More »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 a household word. This work takes the reader into Richter's life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, and the history of seismology.
« LessCh. 2. Formative years
Ch. 3. Margaret Rose
Ch. 4. Harnessing the horses
Ch. 5. Earthquake exploration
Ch. 6. The Kresge era
Ch. 7. Beno Gutenberg
Ch. 8. Earthquake!
Ch. 9. Richter scale
Ch. 10. Charlie
Ch. 11. Lillian
Ch. 12. Richter's women
Ch. 13. Autumn
Ch. 14. Asperger's syndrome
Ch. 15. Here it comes again
Ch. 16. Predicting the unpredictable
Ch. 17. Sizing up earthquake hazard
Ch. 18. Hazard in a nuclear age
Ch. 19. Supernova
App. A belated farewell.
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