Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

What is the name of the CalTech seismologist who invented the scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?

  1. Charles Richter

  2. Hiram Walker

  3. Giuseppe Mercalli

  4. Joshua Rumble
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Charles Richter developed the Richter scale in 1935 at Caltech to measure earthquake magnitude. This logarithmic scale quantifies the energy released by seismic events, with each whole number increase representing ten times more amplitude.

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