About Vít Kárník
Lived 1926 – 1994 (aged 67). Vít Kárník was a Czech geophysicist and seismologist.
Vít Kárník (5 October 1926 in Prague – 31 January 1994 in Prague) was a Czech geophysicist and seismologist. He and Wilhelm 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. He was the head of the seismology department at Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences during the 1950s.
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max. depth 50 km
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Czech geophysicist and seismologist (1926-1994)
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Vít Kárník was born on 5 October 1926 in Prague.
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Vít Kárník died on 31 January 1994 in Prague.
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Vít Kárník was a geophysicist and seismologist.
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Vít Kárník was Czech.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Vít Kárník. https://biography.guide/vit-karnik/
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