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Mercalli Seismology.|mɜːˈkælɪ|
The name of Giuseppe Mercalli (1850–1914), Italian geologist, used attrib. to designate an arbitrary 12-point scale he devised (in 1897) to express the intensity of an earthquake at any place.
1921C. Davison Man. Seismol. iii. 45 The Mercalli scale..is suitable for strong earthquakes and is adopted in Italy. 1927― Founders Seismol. vi. 106 Mercalli found that the higher degrees of the Rossi-Forel scale were insufficient... His modification of that scale contains the germs of the Mercalli scale now so widely used. 1972Times 28 Nov. 5/2 The tremor (eight on the 12-point Mercalli scale) damaged many buildings in the old part of the city. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Apr. 10/5 An earthquake can have only one magnitude but it can have several intensities and these are registered on what is known as the modified Mercalli intensity scale. |