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Giuseppe Mercalli
Giuseppe Mercalli
Born
21 May 1850
Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Died
19 March 1914(1914-03-19) (aged 63)
Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality
Italian
Known for
Mercalli intensity scale
Scientific career
Fields
Volcanology
Giuseppe Mercalli (21 May 1850 – 19 March 1914) was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. He is known best for the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring earthquake intensity.
GiuseppeMercalli (21 May 1850 – 19 March 1914) was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. He is known best for the Mercalli intensity scale for...
any particular location, on the surface. It was developed from GiuseppeMercalli'sMercalli intensity scale of 1902. While shaking experienced at the surface...
Emanuele II in Naples, where among his professors was vulcanologist GiuseppeMercalli. In 1892 his brother, Alberto, received incurable head trauma in a...
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in Physics in 1901 GiuseppeMercalli (1850–1914): Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. He is best remembered for the Mercalli intensity scale for...
scale developed in 1902 by the Italian priest and geologist GiuseppeMercalli. The Mercalli scale uses Roman numerals and classifies earthquakes from I...
(1845–1922) and GiuseppeMercalli (1850–1912), who also provided a long report on the area's geology with a map of the intensity of the shaking. Mercalli thought...
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eruption of Vulcano was carefully documented at the time by GiuseppeMercalli. Mercalli described the eruptions as "...explosions sounding like a cannon...
century as a 10 grade scale. In 1902, Italian seismologist GiuseppeMercalli, created the Mercalli Scale, a new 12-grade scale. A very significant improvement...
the Vesuvius Observatory, was founded in Naples in 1841. Geologist GiuseppeMercalli, born in Milan in 1850, was a director of the Vesuvius Observatory...
world" by Aleteia; the other four are: Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, GiuseppeMercalli and Georges Lemaitre. After completing undergraduate training in philosophy...
de Dolomieu (1750–1801) George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797–1876) GiuseppeMercalli (1850–1914) Thomas Jaggar (1871–1953), founder of the Hawaiian Volcano...
1910) 1849 – Édouard-Henri Avril, French painter (d. 1928) 1850 – GiuseppeMercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914) 1851 – Léon Bourgeois...
24 – Sir David Gill (born 1843), Scottish astronomer. March 19 – GiuseppeMercalli (born 1850), Italian volcanologist. March 30 – John Henry Poynting...
units – Max Planck Stoney units – George Stoney Mercalli intensity scale, earthquake effects – GiuseppeMercalli degree Réaumur (°R), temperature – René Antoine...
1909) May 18 – Oliver Heaviside, British engineer (d. 1925) May 21 GiuseppeMercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914) Gustav Lindenthal, Czech civil engineer...
Arithmetic, Birkhäuser (E.A. Marchisotto & J.T. Smith (2007). GiuseppeMercalli, inventor of the Mercalli Scale of earthquake intensity, was professor of geology...
physical properties to those of light GiuseppeMercalli (1850–1914), volcanologist and seismologist, inventor of the Mercalli intensity scale (1902) Quirico...
May 18 – Oliver Heaviside (died 1925), English physicist. May 21 – GiuseppeMercalli (died 1914), Italian volcanologist. May 23 – George Claridge Druce...
geologist and mineralogist GiuseppeMercalli (1850–1914), Italian seismologist and volcanologist, developed the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring...
March 18 – Andreas Beck, Norwegian explorer (b. 1864) March 19 – GiuseppeMercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850) March 22 – Allen Caperton Braxton...
of Mount Pelée in Martinique. Mercalli intensity scale introduced as a seismic scale for earthquakes by GiuseppeMercalli. July 14 - Peruvian explorer...
plate tectonics; awarded William Bowie Medal GiuseppeMercalli (Italian, 1850–1914) – developed Mercalli intensity scale for measuring earthquakes John...
physical properties to those of light GiuseppeMercalli (1850–1914), volcanologist and seismologist, inventor of the Mercalli intensity scale (1902) Franco Modigliani...