MODIFIED MERCALLI INTENSITY VALUE XII
{short description of image} Full Description: Damage nearly total. Large rock masses displaced. Lines of sight and level distorted. Objects thrown into the air.

Full descriptions are from: Richter, C.F., 1958. Elementary Seismology. W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, pp. 135-149; 650-653.

 


Artwork is courtesy of the Campagna Mulitmediale di Informazione of the Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale in Italy ("Italia"). Molto gracie.

jbp 9/18/03