Earthquake Intensity—What controls the shaking you feel?

IRIS Earthquake Science · 81K views · 2016 · 8:17

Open on YouTube

Geology & earth scienceother

Why the open web links it

Explains how earthquake intensity differs from magnitude and what factors influence the shaking felt at the surface.

Linked by 3 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, wa.gov, mtu.edu, libretexts.org, earthjay.com.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Modified Mercalli intensity scale.