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Degrees 5 and 6 each split into two.
Also known as: Shindo 5 weak, Shindo 6 strong
The Japanese convention splitting seismic intensity degrees 5 and 6 into a weak and a strong half, written with a suffix character.
Divides intensity degrees 5 and 6 into a weaker and a stronger half.
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Was introduced in 1996 after the Kobe earthquake, because the old undivided degrees 5 and 6 covered too wide a range of damage to be useful for dispatching help; the split gives the scale ten degrees over eight numerals.
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Is rendered in English reporting as 5-lower and 5-upper, and sometimes wrongly as 5-minus and 5-plus, which suggests a continuous quantity where the scale is a set of bounded classes.
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A numeral followed immediately by one of two characters meaning weak or strong, written without a space or a separator between them.
The scale these degrees belong to.