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The Mercalli scale.

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What is measured on the ritchet scale?

The intensity of earthquakes is measured on the Richter Scale.


How are some earthquakes measured?

they are measured by a Richter scale


Are all the earthquakes in the world measured the same way?

All earthquakes are measured on either the Richter scale or the Mercalli scale.


What it measured on the Richter scale?

Richter scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes.


What scale is measured for an earthquakes strength?

Richter scale is used for measuring earthquakes. It is a scale which works from 1 to 10 magnitude.


How are earthquakes impact measured?

Earthquakes are monitered by a device called a Richter Scale.


What scale gives the intensity of earthquakes?

Richter scale is used to measure earthquakes magnitude Shake intensity is measured on the Mercalli scale


How earthquakes and the destruction they cause are measured?

They are measured on the Richter Scale, if you are talking about the magnitude


How is intensity or energy of earthquakes measured?

Using the Richter scale, a logarithmic scale.


Is earthquakes are measured by the Richter scale fact or fantasy?

yes


What do you mesure earthquakes in?

an earthquake is measured with a seismograph and its strenght with a Richter scale


Why can't you use a Mercalli scale to measure undersea earthquake?

Earthquakescan be measured using the Mercalli Scale, which ranks earthquakes on their effects, such as how they were felt and the damage they caused. Undersea earthquakes can't be measured with this scale because they do not cause this type of damage