A whole lesson which will introduce students to the Mercalli scale, teach them the characteristics of each level and allow them to demonstrate their understanding in several different ways. For ...

Scientists measure both the energy released in an earthquake and its damage. In 1902, Italian scientist Giuseppe Mercalli introduced a scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake based on its ...

Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor the seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake strikes. Scientists used the Richter Scale for many years but now largely ...

Mercalli scale, Richter scale, Super volcano Full lesson with a starter recapping on how super volcanoes form (close passage/ gap fill) then moves on to look at how earthquakes are measured. A ...

Residents across Somalia were rattled by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake on Thursday.