How did seismologists originally measure the intensity of an earthquake?
- Correct Answer: mercalli scale
- regolith scale
- richter scale
- Maxwell scale
Explanation: The ways seismologists measure an earthquake have changed over the decades. Initially, they could only measure what people felt and saw: the intensity. For this, they used the Mercalli scale.
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