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To measure the strength of an earthquake, you can use either a seismographrichtermercalli intensity scale or moment magnitudeseismogrammercalli intensity scale.

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To measure the strength of an earthquake, you can use either a Richter scale or Mercalli scale. Richter scale uses the amplitued of the wave and the distance from the source. Mercalli scale uses observations of people and is not considered to be scientific as Richter scale.



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The both mentioned scale measures the intensity of Earthquake. So, the statement would be: "True"

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