Mercalli intensity scale

Quality:

Modified Mercalli intensity scale - seismic scale used for measuring the intensity and effects of an earthquake. Article “Mercalli intensity scale” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Mercalli intensity scale”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5857^th place) and edited by 1504 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 103 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8434 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #57 in February 2021
• Global: #1307 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #944 in October 2020
• Global: #855 in February 2023

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Modified Mercalli intensity scale		50.0107
2	Indonesian (id) Skala intensitas Mercalli yang dimodifikasi		39.0678
3	Korean (ko) 수정 메르칼리 진도 계급		36.7368
4	Spanish (es) Escala sismológica de Mercalli		36.3927
5	Tamil (ta) மாற்றியமைக்கப்பட்ட மெர்கல்லி செறிவு அளவுகோல்		30.5281
6	Malay (ms) Skala Mercalli		27.5888
7	Persian (fa) مقیاس اصلاح‌شده شدت مرکالی		25.394
8	Portuguese (pt) Escala de Mercalli		24.3122
9	Italian (it) Scala Mercalli		22.7644
10	Greek (el) Κλίμακα Μερκάλι		22.5887

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Modified Mercalli intensity scale		4 784 829
2	Spanish (es) Escala sismológica de Mercalli		2 477 950
3	Italian (it) Scala Mercalli		1 424 237
4	Japanese (ja) 改正メルカリ震度階		577 094
5	Turkish (tr) Mercalli şiddet ölçeği		473 277
6	French (fr) Échelle de Mercalli		336 693
7	German (de) Mercalliskala		319 360
8	Portuguese (pt) Escala de Mercalli		315 478
9	Chinese (zh) 修訂麥加利地震烈度表		232 608
10	Polish (pl) Skala Mercallego		220 162

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Modified Mercalli intensity scale		44 676
2	Spanish (es) Escala sismológica de Mercalli		15 980
3	Japanese (ja) 改正メルカリ震度階		8 329
4	Italian (it) Scala Mercalli		3 869
5	Portuguese (pt) Escala de Mercalli		2 041
6	Turkish (tr) Mercalli şiddet ölçeği		1 294
7	Chinese (zh) 修訂麥加利地震烈度表		1 294
8	French (fr) Échelle de Mercalli		1 077
9	Persian (fa) مقیاس اصلاح‌شده شدت مرکالی		912
10	German (de) Mercalliskala		779

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Modified Mercalli intensity scale		384
2	Italian (it) Scala Mercalli		130
3	Spanish (es) Escala sismológica de Mercalli		107
4	German (de) Mercalliskala		94
5	French (fr) Échelle de Mercalli		71
6	Dutch (nl) Schaal van Mercalli		62
7	Japanese (ja) 改正メルカリ震度階		47
8	Persian (fa) مقیاس اصلاح‌شده شدت مرکالی		40
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thang đo Mercalli		36
10	Portuguese (pt) Escala de Mercalli		34

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Modified Mercalli intensity scale		3
2	Spanish (es) Escala sismológica de Mercalli		2
3	Persian (fa) مقیاس اصلاح‌شده شدت مرکالی		2
4	Arabic (ar) مقياس ميركالي المعدل		1
5	Japanese (ja) 改正メルカリ震度階		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Escala de Mercalli		1
7	Romanian (ro) Scara de intensitate Mercalli		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Merkalli şkalası		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Скала на Меркали – Канкани – Зиберг		0
10	Catalan (ca) Escala de Mercalli		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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