April 26, 1900 - Charles Richter's birthday

Q: If the building you are in now started to shake
and you knew an earthquake was occurring, what would you do?

A: I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

from an interview with Charles Richter
originally published in the Earthquake Information Bulletin.
Vol. 3, No. 4, July - August, 1971.

In 1935, Charles Richter published the earthquake magnitude measuring system
which bears his name - the Richter Scale.