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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Engineering
#Foundation
#Light
#Motion
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Gravity
#Put
#Reason
#Safety
#Simple
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Could
#Differences
#Events
#Mean
#Moving
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Earthquake
#Experience
#More
#Peak
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Concept
#Earthquake
#Energy
#Quantity
I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Glad
#Now
#Press
#Scale
#See
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Extraordinary
#Good
#Ordinary
#Try
#Wait
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Life
#Loss
#Out
#Point
#Property
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Earthquakes
#Great
#Justice
#Name
#World
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Inevitable
#Long
#Made
#Science
#Time
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Amateur
#Astronomy
#Interest
#Star
#Used
For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Energy
#Large
#Light
#Middle
#Stars
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Device
#Devil
#Plots
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Because
#Device
#Devil
#Lucky
#Plots
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
- Charles Francis Richter
#Active
#Development
#Nothing
#Science
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