Mercalli Scale Activities

Mercalli Scale Activity
Look, Analyze and Defend!
Instructions
• We are going to look at a number of pictures
of real earthquake damage. You will –
– Look for damage. What do you observe?
– Analyze the damage according to your
Mercalli Scale.
– Assign a Mercalli Scale number to the
picture.
– Defend your decision with a sentence or
two which describes the damage.
First, make a graph to record your data…
Photo
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Mercalli
Scale
Rating
Description of Damages (How
does your description support your
rating?)
Here is a Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale to
use if you don’t have the paper from class.
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