Environmental Sciences, asked by jajaherrera12, 1 year ago

What characteristic of the earthquake does the Magnitude Scale show?

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Answered by Anonymous

Prior to the development of the magnitude scale the only measure of an earthquake's strength or "size" was a subjective assessment of the intensity of shaking observed near the epicenter of the earthquake, categorized by various seismic intensity scales such as the Rossi-Forel scale.

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