Earthquake intensity (a qualitative/quantitative measure of shaking effects and damage at a given location, e.g. on the Modified Mercalli scale) varies from place to place around an epicenter, while magnitude is a single fixed number describing the total energy released at the source.
Isoseismal maps are contour maps that connect points of equal observed shaking intensity around an earthquake's epicenter. Because intensity depends on distance from the source,...
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