You hear about the Richter Scale whenever there is an earthquake, but what do we really know? Well, it was developed in 1935 by Charles F Richter at the California Institute or Technology to compare the size of earthquakes. And it did just that. For more details, the basic sciencey stuff is here, and a simpler, normal words description here. Although people enjoy finding out how big quakes are on the Richter scale (it does have a catchy name), it has been mostly replaced since the 1970s with the Moment Magnitude Scale for large earthquakes.
In case you don't want to read any of the linked articles, here's a video that explains the basics. So just go ahead and watch this guy tell you "something" about the Richter Scale.
Way to pull an awesome rick post out of your hat. I wouldn't have thought of this but it fits so perfectly in the rick catalog. Right up there with rick of wood.
ReplyDeleteOh, you'll never know where a Profile in Rickery might come from. This place is becoming a nice little rickopedia
ReplyDeleteExperiencing an earth quake is on my bucket list. But I suppose it is in the bucket that I do not have a lot of control over getting accomplished. Ah well.....rumble on.
ReplyDeleteIn the spirit of this, I looked up to see if the Scoville scale was invented by Rick Scoville. It was instead invented by the unfortunate name of Wilbur Scoville. That's no Rick. Bummer.