What was the collaboration between Richter and Gutenberg?

Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter were colleagues at the California Institute of Technology who collaborated to develop the Richter scale. Presented by Richter in his 1935 landmark paper, the scale was created to quantify the size of earthquakes. Because the collaboration also contributed significantly to seismology, the scale is sometimes referred to as the Gutenberg–Richter scale.

What we know

• Beno Gutenberg was a colleague, mentor, and collaborator of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology. [2, 3]
• Gutenberg collaborated with Richter to develop the magnitude scale for measuring the strength of earthquakes. [2, 3, 4]
• The earthquake magnitude scale developed through their collaboration was presented in Richter's 1935 landmark paper. [4]

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Sources

• [1]Beno Gutenberg (Wikidata Q76770) · CC0 1.0
• [2]Beno Gutenberg · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [3]Charles Richter · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [4]Richter scale · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [5]Holyoake Range · CC BY-SA 4.0

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