mercalli scale

Noun
  1. A scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake;
    An earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII (synset 113873623)
    referred to in: geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
    is a type of: graduated table, ordered series, scale, scale of measurement - an ordered reference standard

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