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Using Mercalli

  • In the example corpus, mercalli often appears in combinations such as: the mercalli, mercalli intensity, modified mercalli.

Context around Mercalli

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

modified 3× maximum 2× giuseppe 1× luca 1× authority 1× degree 1×

Often after:

intensity 4× scale 3× cancani 2× revised 1× wood 1×

Sentence patterns with Mercalli

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a maximum mercalli intensity of 2× as the mercalli cancani sieberg 1× as the mercalli wood neumann 1× creating the mercalli intensity scale 1× gives modified mercalli scale intensities 1× monetary authority mercalli re ltd 1× professor luca mercalli said we 1× ten degree mercalli scale was 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

in 1902 the 1× president of the 1× the amount of 1× the bermuda monetary 1× the italian volcanologist 1× the large table 1×

Common sentence endings:

40c or 45c 1× mercalli intensity scale 1× mercalli re ltd 1× modified mercalli scale 1× neumann mwn scale 1× of ix violent 1×

Words around Mercalli

Just before it in the word index:

mercados 3 mercadona 2 mercadolibre 27 mercado 83 mercader 6 mercadante 10

Just after it in the word index:

mercan 4 mercante 2 mercantile 146 mercantilism 52 mercantilist 31 mercantilists 10

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 14 aamer 14 aave 14 abadan 14 abdelmadjid 14 abdulkarim 14

Corpus analysis for Mercalli

  • In this selection, "mercalli" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, modified, maximum, giuseppe, intensity, scale and cancani stand out and add context to how "mercalli" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a maximum mercalli intensity of and as the mercalli cancani sieberg. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "mercalli" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with mercalli

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The Bermuda Monetary Authority: Mercalli Re Ltd. (7 words)

The shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). (11 words)

In 1902, the ten-degree Mercalli scale was expanded to twelve degrees by Italian physicist Adolfo Cancani. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

The Italian volcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli revised the widely used simple ten-degree Rossi–Forel scale between 1884 and 1906, creating the Mercalli Intensity scale which is still used nowadays. (29 words)

The Mercalli–Cancani–Sieberg scale was later modified and published in English by Harry O. Wood and Frank Neumann in 1931 as the Mercalli–Wood–Neumann (MWN) scale. (28 words)

The rupture was related to the San Andreas fault system and affected the entire San Francisco Bay Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). (26 words)

Example sentences (11)

The Italian volcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli revised the widely used simple ten-degree Rossi–Forel scale between 1884 and 1906, creating the Mercalli Intensity scale which is still used nowadays.

The Mercalli–Cancani–Sieberg scale was later modified and published in English by Harry O. Wood and Frank Neumann in 1931 as the Mercalli–Wood–Neumann (MWN) scale.

President of the Italian Meteorological Society, Professor Luca Mercalli, said: "We know that there will be temperatures above 40C or 45C.

The amount of shaking a quake causes is measured on separate scales, such as the Modified Mercalli Scale.

The shaking at the point closest to the epicenter felt “very strong”, as defined by the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.

The Bermuda Monetary Authority: Mercalli Re Ltd.

In 1902, the ten-degree Mercalli scale was expanded to twelve degrees by Italian physicist Adolfo Cancani.

It was later completely re-written by the German geophysicist August Heinrich Sieberg and became known as the Mercalli–Cancani–Sieberg (MCS) scale.

The large table gives Modified Mercalli scale intensities that are typically observed at locations near the epicenter of the earthquake.

The rupture was related to the San Andreas fault system and affected the entire San Francisco Bay Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).

The shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong).

Common combinations with mercalli

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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