This document is associated with Data Puzzle 3 in the NSTA Press book, Earth Science Puzzles: Making Meaning From Data.

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This document is associated with Data Puzzle 3 in
the NSTA Press book, Earth Science Puzzles
Making Meaning From Data. What does an earthquake
feel like?
The complete list of supporting documents for
this puzzle can be found on the Data Puzzle
website http//www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/data_pu
zzles
Instructions Assign Mercalli Scale ratings to
the cities on the map by grabbing the colored
circles from the Modified Mercalli Scale key and
dragging them over the open circles next the the
city names. The key contains multiple layers of
the colored circles so they may be grabbed
repeatedly from the key and assigned to multiple
cities without damaging the key itself. DO NOT
SAVE your changes at the end of the exercise.
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Modified Mercalli Scale
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