II Felt by a few people, especially on upper floors. III Noticeable indoors, especially on upper floors, but may not be recognized as an earthquake. IV Felt by many indoors, few outdoors. May feel ...

Another scale is based on the physical size of the earthquake fault and the amount of slip that occurred. Then there are also measures of earthquake shaking intensity. The intensity from one ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures ... At the seismic intensity of upper 5, people find it difficult to move and dishes could fall out from ...

Invented by Richter and his colleague Beno Gutenberg, the Richter Scale is a magnitude scale used to measure the intensity of earthquakes. The scale helps assign a numerical value to quantify the ...

The JMA has so far been issuing earthquake early warnings--in the event of a seismic event expected to measure a maximum of “lower 5” or more on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7--to ...