Charles Richter

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Charles Francis Richter (; April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.

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