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The Richter scale was developed in the 1940s by American scientists Beno Gutenberg and Charles Richter in order to gauge scientifically the intensity of individual earthquakes. The idea behind the Richter scale is that the energy released by an earthquake should be measured, not its effect on Earth’s surface. The Richter scale p
