Vít Kárník (5 October 1926 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

– 31 January 1994 in Prague) was a Czech geophysicist and seismologist. He and Wilhem Sponheuer developed the

Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale The Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale, also known as the MSK or MSK-64, is a macroseismic intensity scale used to evaluate the severity of ground shaking on the basis of observed effects in an area where an earthquake transpires. The scale was f ...

(MSK-scale) for measurement of intensity of earthquakes with Sergei Medvelev and in scale described magnitude of epicentric points.

Moscow-Prague formula

M_\mathrm = \log_\left(\right)_ + \sigma\left(\Delta\right) = \log_\left(\right)_ + 166 \log_\Delta + 33

max. depth 50Km

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1926 births 1994 deaths Czechoslovak geologists Geophysicists Seismologists Scientists from Prague {{CzechRepublic-scientist-stub