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Richter scale
Measure of an earthquake's strength
The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the GutenbergโRichter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". This was later revised and renamed the local magnitude scale, denoted as ML or MLโฏ.
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