Kárník, Vít

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Name (Latin)
Kárník, Vít
Date of birth
1926-10-05
Date of death
1994-01-31
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Prof.
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 91929679
Wikidata: Q1601577
Library of congress: n 50044616
Sources of Information
  • International Geophysical Committee. Working Group on the Upper Mantle Project. Investigations of the earth's crust, 1963.
Wikipedia description:

Vít Kárník (5 October 1926 in Prague – 31 January 1994 in Prague) was a Czech geophysicist and seismologist. He and Wilhem Sponheuer developed the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale (MSK-scale) for measurement of intensity of earthquakes with Sergei Medvedev and in scale described magnitude of epicentric points.

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