Cylus is a modern English respelling of the name Silas, which is a short form of the Greek name Silouanos, which is a variant of the Latin name Silvanus, which is derived from the Latin word silva, meaning wood, forest.. Tweet.
The modified mercalli intensity scale is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake and is in part derived from the damage done to building and other structures. Edit Share to:
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.