Geolympics 3: Football field and macroseismic field
While waiting for the FIFA World Cup Final, here’s another #Geolympics post on football! Intensity measures the effects of an earthquake on humans, the built environment and nature (earthquake-induced effects, such as landslides, liquefaction, tsunamis). Commonly adopted macroseismic scales (MM: Modified Mercalli, EMS: European Macroseismic Scale) comprise 12 degrees, from the lowest (perceived by seismometers…
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