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well our teacher told us that the marcelli scale was crap since it was only based the damage done by earthquake so a really high magnitude earthquake could rate high on the marcelli scale if the area wasnt well built and could also rate low if it was well built! so basically there was no real system until Charles Richter set the Richter scale which measures waves giving us accurate magnitude of earthquake instead of speculating based on damage!

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