The Richter scale is a logarithmic scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes. Developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter, the scale quantifies the amount of energy released during an earthquake, which is referred to as the seismic wave magnitude. The scale is logarithmic, meaning that each whole number increase on the scale corresponds to a tenfold increase in the amplitude of the seismic waves recorded by a seismograph. For example, an earthquake measuring 6.
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