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Article: SCIENCE FINDS FAULT WITH RICHTER SCALE
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1994
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EARTHQUAKES
A shorter version ran on a1 in the South Lake and Porter edition.
You could call it a scandal of the first magnitude, a development of earthshaking proportions. The Richter scale, the venerated measure of earthquake size, is no more.
Seismologists acknowledge there's still something warm and fuzzy about the 63-year-old Richter scale, a familiarity that gives earthquake survivors something to cling to, a bloodless measure of the troubles they've seen.
The professionals, who largely abandoned Richter's specifics years ago, view it differently.
"It's my impression that the Richter scale is something invented ...