| Bennett Simpson, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said, 'This was a significant earthquake. |
| The Richter scale was developed by seismologist Charles Richter in the 1930s to bring consistent, objective criteria to evaluating the size of earthquakes. |
| Its members are mostly countries in and around the Pacific, where tsunamis are much more common. Arun Bapat, an Indian seismologist, nonetheless cites examples of four previous tsunamis that have reached India. |
| It's probably safe to say that only one seismologist is a household name. |
| The Richter scale of magnitude was created in 1935 by the American seismologist Charles F. Richter. |
| I had now learned to gauge her emotional moods like a seismologist reads a Richter scale. |
