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Charles Richter, an Uncommon card
Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Charles Richter quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Charles Richter card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in ____, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.
Answer
1970s. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes. From the Charles Richter article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Spray foam. Spray foam 67 · Charles Richter 64 · Off-road racing 61 · Lyon Metro 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.
- Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, both worked at the California Institute of Technology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Richter article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Charles Richter
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charles Richter (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : en:Caltech photograph, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
