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{{about|the earthquake magnitude scale introduced by Charles Richter in 1935|a review of earthquake magnitude scales|seismic magnitude scales}}
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The '''Richter scale'''<ref>{{Harvnb|Kanamori|1978|p=411}}. {{Harvtxt|Hough|2007|pp=122–126}} discusses the name at some length.</ref> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|ɪ|k|t|ər}}), also called the '''Richter magnitude scale''', '''Richter's magnitude scale''', and the '''Gutenberg–Richter scale''',<ref>{{cite book |last1=McPhee |first1=John |title=Annals of the Former World |date=1998 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |page=608}}</ref> is a measure of the strength of [[earthquake]]s, developed by [[Charles Francis Richter]] and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".<ref>{{Harvnb|Kanamori|1978|p=411}}; {{Harvnb|Richter|1935}}.</ref> This was later revised and renamed the '''local magnitude scale''', denoted as ML or {{M|L}}.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gutenberg|Richter|1956b|p=30}}.</ref>
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