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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

mercalli
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Italian surname . Surname of Italian geologist and seismologist named Giuseppe Mercalli, inventor of a scale for measuring the intensity of earthquakes, according to their capacity for destruction. Name of a scale for measuring earthquake intensity.

  




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MERCALLI Scale of 12 degrees to evaluate an earthquake or earthquake. It is determined by the level of damage produced and not by the intensity of it. Its degrees are 1 Very weak 2 . Weak 3 Mild 4 . Moderate 5 . Little strong 6 . Fort 7 . Very strong 8 . Destructive 9 . Very destructive 10 . Disastrous 11 . Very disastrous 12 . Catastrophic

  



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