Looking Backward Was the First Book to Popularize Socialist Ideas

question 63

True/False

Looking Backward was the first book to popularize socialist ideas for an American audience.

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Richter Magnitude

A scale historically used to quantify the size of earthquakes based on the amplitude of seismic waves, replaced by the more accurate moment magnitude scale for large events.

Nomograph

A type of graph used in seismology to determine the local magnitude of an earthquake.

S-Wave Amplitude

The measure of the height of the secondary or shear waves, which are one type of seismic wave produced by earthquakes.

Strike-Slip Faults

Faults where two blocks of crust slide past each other horizontally, with little vertical motion.