mercalli scale

1. 1.

   a scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII

   Broaderscale

   geology

Questions about mercalli scale

What does mercalli scale mean?

mercalli scale means "a scale formerly used to describe the magnitude of an earthquake; an earthquake detected only by seismographs is a I and an earthquake that destroys all buildings is a XII".

Is mercalli scale a common word?

mercalli scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.