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Giuseppe Mercalli
Volcanologist
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Giuseppe Mercalli was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest, remembered above all for the Mercalli intensity scale, a method for rating the intensity of an earthquake by its observed effects on people, buildings and the landscape rather than by instrumental measurement alone.
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