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China seismic intensity scale

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denotes how strongly an earthquake affects a specific place. It is determined by a combination of subjective evaluations (such as human senses and building damage) and objective kinetic measures. Building damage are further refined with a combination of descriptive qualifiers and a numeric
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Noise from vibration of doors, windows, and building frames; falling of dusts, small cracks in plasters, falling of some roof tiles, bricks falling from a few roof-top chimneys
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existing and future buildings. The national standard Code for Seismic Design of Buildings (GB 500011-2001) published in 2001 and partially revised shortly after the
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Collapse of river banks; frequent burst of sand and water from saturated sand layers; many cracks in soft soils; moderate destruction of most standalone chimneys
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Earthquake Engineering Frontiers in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the China-US Millennium Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, 8–11 November 2000
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Cracks appear in hard dry soils; severe destruction of most standalone chimneys; tree tops break; death of people and cattle caused by building destruction
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Cracks in bedrock and earthquake fractures; destruction of bridge arches founded in bedrock; foundation damage or collapse of most standalone chimneys
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Many cracks in hard dry soils; possible cracks and dislocations in bedrock; frequent landslides and collapses; collapse of many standalone chimneys
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CHEN Dasheng, SHI Zhenliang, XU Zonghe, GAO Guangyi, NiAN Jiaquan, XIAO Chengye, FENG Yijun (陈达生、时振梁、徐宗和、高光伊、鄢家全、肖承邺、冯义钧) (1999-04-26).
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Cracks in river banks and soft soil; occasional burst of sand and water from saturated sand layers; cracks on some standalone chimneys
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Notes about qualifiers: "very few" - <10%; "few" - 10% - 50%; "most" - 50% - 70%; "majority" - 70% - 90%; "commonly" - >90%.
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Slight destruction - localized destruction, crack, may continue to be used with small repairs or without repair
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Majority scared to running outdoors, sensible by bicycle riders and people in moving motor vehicles
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Damage - Cracks in the walls, falling of roof tiles, some roof-top chimneys crack or fall apart
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Commonly sensible by people indoors, sensible by most people outdoors; most wake up from sleep
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on which CSIS drew reference, seismic impacts are classified into 12 degrees of intensity, or
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Severe destruction - severe structural destruction, localized collapse, difficult to repair
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Bicycle riders may fall; people in unstable state may fall away; sense of being thrown up
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includes a list of liedu that each building in designated cities is expected to resist.
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Moderate destruction - structural destruction occurs, continued usage requires repair
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General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine of P.R.C.
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Sensible by most people indoors, a few people outdoors; a few wake up from sleep
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The following is an unofficial translation of the Appendix I of GB/T 17742-1999.
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Earthquake fractures extend a long way; many bedrock cracks and landslides
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by then National Quality and Technology Supervision Administration (now
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Most unable to stand stably, a few scared to running outdoors
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Historic local seismic liedu is an important reference in
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that objectively estimate the released seismic energy,
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Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale
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XU Zhengzhong, WANG Yayong, et al. (徐正忠、王亚勇等) (2001).
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from I for insensible to XII for landscape reshaping.
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(2001). 523:Effectively this only applies to 163:Horizontal motion on the ground 38:) is a national standard in the 877:Science and technology in China 785:Local magnitude (Richter scale) 744:Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik (MSK) 154:Senses by people on the ground 81:China Earthquake Administration 826:Mercalli–Cancani–Sieberg (MCS) 68: 1: 32:China seismic intensity scale 18:China Seismic Intensity Scale 456: 435: 418: 413: 407: 389: 384: 378: 360: 355: 349: 333: 328: 322: 306: 301: 295: 279: 274: 247:Rattle of doors and windows 898: 831:Mercalli–Wood–Neuman (MWN) 157:Degree of building damage 40:People's Republic of China 27:Earthquake intensity scale 162: 159: 156: 153: 147: 59: 862:Seismic intensity scales 703:Seismic magnitude scales 657:. 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Index

China Seismic Intensity Scale
People's Republic of China
seismic intensity
EMS-92
Chinese
pinyin
Roman numerals
China Earthquake Administration
Guobiao
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine of P.R.C.
2008 Sichuan earthquake
magnitude scales
Peak acceleration
quake proofing
2008 Sichuan earthquake
Seismic intensity scales
Seismic magnitude scales
Seismic engineering
mainland China
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Seismic intensity scales


"China Seismic Intensity Scale (中国地震烈度表)"
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"Revision of "China Seismic Intensity Scale" started (《中国地震烈度表》修订工作启动)"
"Code for seismic design of buildings (GB 500011-2001) (partially revised in 2008), Appendix A ( 《建筑抗震设计规范》(GB 500011-2001) (2008 年局部修订) 附录 A 我国主要城镇抗震设防烈度、设计基本地震加速度和设计地震分组)"

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