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Modified Mercalli intensity scale

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Keywords: 
Earth systems
earthquakes
modified mercalli intensity scale
Students use the Modified Mercalli intensity scale to assign magnitudes to three described earthquakes. Then they interpret data about the distance from an epicentre, and explain why, from given information, one earthquake might be more damaging than another.