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A ten-degree shaking scale written as shindo.
Also known as: Shindo scale, Japanese intensity scale
The Japanese scale reporting how strongly an earthquake was felt at a place, in ten degrees from 0 to 7.
Reports the strength of shaking felt at a particular place.
Contexts: Technical drawing, Public information
Is not a magnitude and is not interchangeable with one: magnitude is a single number for the whole earthquake, and intensity is a different number at every place. A shindo 7 and a magnitude 7 have no relation to one another and the confusion between them is the single most common error in reporting Japanese earthquakes.
Contexts: Technical drawing, Public information
Has been measured instrumentally since 1996 rather than assessed from observed damage, which distinguishes it from the Mercalli and MSK scales it is otherwise comparable to.
Contexts: Technical drawing, Public information
A bounded run of numerals from zero to seven with two of them split by a suffix character, written as a figure beside a place name on a map or a broadcast caption.
The split degrees the scale gained in 1996.