The Modified Mercalli intensity scale, developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of

1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an
earthquake.

The Richter scale —also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the
Gutenberg–Richter scale—is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles
Francis Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale"

A seismograph is the primary earthquake measuring instrument. The seismograph produces a

digital graphic recording of the ground motion caused by the seismic waves. The digital recording is
called a seismogram.

Earthquake magnitude is a measure of the “size,” or amplitude, of the

seismic waves generated by an earthquake source and recorded
by seismographs.

The intensity of an earthquake at a location is a number that characterizes

the severity of ground shaking at that location by considering the effects of
the shaking on people, on manmade structures, and on the landscape.