Meanings of richter scale in English

Solomon Islands has been hit by another powerful earthquake overnight, measuring seven-point-four on the richter scale.

It was an explosion so massive it registered on the richter scale, the measure used to quantify the force of earthquakes.

The western region of Turkey was struck by another massive earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the richter scale, yesterday.

Christchurch has been rattled by a series of earthquakes with the latest measuring 5.5 on the richter scale.

But compared to the buzz which happened when Spotify launched here last November, Google's music launch didn't really register on the buzz richter scale.

An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the richter scale struck off the coast of north-eastern Japan on Friday, shaking buildings as far as Tokyo.

Still, the record of their imaginative frenzy is off the Richter scale.

As challenging subject matter goes, this was off the Richter scale.

Exactly the same momentous reading on rugby's Richter scale, I'd say.

I was thinking seismic sensors, the kind that measure Richter scales.

As immigration people go, this was friendliness off the Richter scale.

The music and the sound system are off the Richter scale.

Nice, but on our Richter scale of excitement it barely tweaks the graph.

And the beer there is all five on the Richter scale.

The Richter scale may be obsolete now, but its logarithm definition of magnitude remains.

Taiwan still uses the Richter scale to measure earthquake intensity.