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When was Charles Richter born?

  • April 26, 1900

  • May 15, 1895

  • June 22, 1901

  • July 8, 1899

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Born on April 26, 1900, Charles Richter was a pioneering American seismologist who made significant contributions to the field of earthquake study and measurement. He is best known for developing the Richter scale, a logarithmic scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded by seismographs.
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