Is the Richter scale named after Andy Richter?
According to the Wiki page, the Richter scale was developed in 1935 by Charles Richter. The Richter scale is a sort of magnitude scale used to define how large (or what magnitude) an earthquake hits. (from wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale) “Richter arbitrarily chose a magnitude 0 event to be an earthquake that would show a maximum combined horizontal displacement of one micrometre on a seismograph recorded using a Wood-Anderson torsion seismometer 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the earthquake epicenter. This choice was intended to prevent negative magnitudes from being assigned. However, the Richter scale has no upper or lower limit, and sensitive modern seismographs now routinely record quakes with negative magnitudes.” Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
