It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Richter's Scale by Susan Elizabeth Hough
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in...
Richter's Scale by Susan Elizabeth Hough is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Richter's Scale aloud.
Richter's Scale is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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