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Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man by Susan Elizabeth Hough (Paperback, 2016)

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ISBN-13: 9780691173283, 978-0691173283. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology.

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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 nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itsel