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Charles Francis Richter

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle."

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Donna Grant

"Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on."

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Donna Grant

"The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

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Donna Grant

"I've been noticing gravity since I was very young."

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Donna Grant

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet."

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Charles Francis Richter
"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."

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Charles Francis Richter
"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used."

Body

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Charles Francis Richter
"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."

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Charles Francis Richter
"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."

Life

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Charles Francis Richter
"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."

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Charles Francis Richter
"I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance."

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Charles Francis Richter
"In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them."

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Charles Francis Richter
"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."

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Charles Francis Richter
"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."

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Charles Francis Richter
"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."

Engineering

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