English-Spanish translations for Richter scale

• escala Richter
  En un mundo en el que las normas de contabilidad suelen registrar bajas lecturas en la escala Richter de la noticiabilidad política, en esta ocasión éstas muestran un perfil más alto de lo normal. In a world where accounting standards generally register low on the Richter scale of political newsworthiness, they have a much higher profile now than is normal.

Definition of Richter scale

• a logarithmic scale used to express the energy released by an earthquake, each increase of 1 representing a 32-fold increase in energy
• A value on the Richter scale

Examples

• The students also faced and experienced earthquakes at various Richter scales.

Related words

• Richter
• Maastricht
• chondrichthyan
• Maastrichtian
• Crichton
• Richterian
• Chondrichthyes
• Richter scale
• Maastricht Formation