yes the Richter scale was made on purpose it was made because Charles Richter needed a way to find out how strong or weak a earthquake is at the time in which that is what it did.
The Richter scale was created solely for the purpose of measuring earthquakes, not tsunamis.
Charles Richter
Developed in 1935 by Charles Richter in partnership with Beno Gutenberg
Because it's Charles Richter's last name... He made the Richter Scale... The Richter Scale can only go up to a 9.9999999(continuous 9)... In Japan in March 2011 the earthquake was a 9.1... It was the 3rd largest earthquake on record
A accomplishment don by Charles Richter is the Richter scale made to know when an earthquake is coming.
The Richter scale
My rebuilt engine is about 7.5 on the Richter scale! Yesterday's earthquake read 3.2 on the Richter scale. The Richter scale was developed in the 1930s.
Charles Richter made it so it can measure the size of an earthquake.
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The scale for a Tsunami is a Richter Scale. The Richter Scale is a scale that measures earthquakes, and Tsunamis are normally made by earthquakes. But be careful, because Tsunamis are normally formed by 6.5's or greater on the Richter Scale. -I hope I helped Actually, the Richter Scale is invalid, and we do not use it any more. The scale we use today is the MMS, or Moment Magnitude Scale. In the MMS, every point up the scale (Which goes from 1-10), multiplies it's magnitude by 30.
Richter scale
4-5 on the Richter scale.