Maya Indians. The Maya Indians were a group of early people who lived in regions from Central America to Mexico.They were a vast and large group and well civilized. The Maya Indians early culture and forms of learning have fascinated archaeologists, Sociologists, and Anthropologists.aya Indians. The Maya Indians were a group of early people who lived in regions from Central America to Mexico.
The difference between the Richter and Mercalli scales, both intended to measure earthquake severity, is that the Richter scale is a mathematical scale based on the measurements of scientific instruments, while the Mercalli scale is based on witness observation and structural damage.
The Richter Scale. The richter scale is a scale that is used to find out how powerful an earthquake was that is determined by seismographic readings. The Richter Scale was named after the American seismologist Charles Richter, who was born in 1900 and died in 1985. It isone of the several very closely related methods that seismologist use to quantify the strength or magnitude of an earthquake.