里氏震级

Richter magnitude scale

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

level / grade / rank / step (of stairs) / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier: step, level

clan name / maiden name

see 月氏[Yue4 zhi1] and 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]

to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder / ☳

Richter (scale)

degree of earthquake (on magnitude scale)