MODIFIED MERCALLI INTENSITY VALUE V
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Description of Shaking Severity: Light
Summary Description Used on Maps: Pictures Move
Full Description: Felt outdoors; direction estimated. Sleepers wakened. Liquids disturbed, some spilled. Small unstable objects displaced or upset. Doors swing, close, open. Shutters, pictures move. Pendulum clocks stop, start, change rate.

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