• the Italian Central Office of Meteorology and Geodynamics. In 1904, Adolfo Cancani proposed adding two additional degrees for very strong earthquakes,...
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    XII ("Damage total; objects thrown into the air"). Italian physicist Adolfo Cancani expanded the ten-degree Mercalli scale with the addition of two degrees...
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    Pietro Antonio Micheli, Francesco Eulalio Savastano; Geologists, e.g. Adolfo Cancani, Bartolomeo Gastaldi, Alessandro Serpieri; Mathematicians, e.g. Archimede...
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  • include descriptions of how individuals responded to the earthquake, and Adolfo Cancani later proposed extending the scale to 12 levels. The German physicist...
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