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China Seismic Intensity Scale

The China Seismic Intensity Scale (CSIS) is a national standard in the People's Republic of China used to measure seismic intensity. Similar to SMC-92 on which CSIS drew reference, seismic impacts are classified into 12 liedu (Chinese: 烈度; pinyin: lièdù, literally "degree of violence"), from I for insensible to XII for landscape reshaping. The scale was initially formalized by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) in 1980, therefore often referred to by its original title as "China Seismic Intensity Scale (1980)". It was later revised, and adopted as a national standard, or Guobiao, series GB/T 17742-1999 by then National Quality and Technology Supervision Administration (now General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine of P.R.C., AQSIQ) in 1999.

Liedu Scale

CSIS

Liedu	Senses by people on the ground	Degree of building damage		Other damages	Horizontal motion on the ground
		Damages	Mean damage index		Peak acceleration m/s2	Peak speed m/s
I	Insensible
II	Sensible by very few still indoor people
III	Sensible by a few still indoor people	Slight rattle of doors and windows		Slight swing of suspended objects
IV	Sensible by most people indoors, a few people outdoors; a few wake up from sleep	Rattle of doors and windows		Obvious swing of suspended objects; vessels rattle
V	Commonly sensible by people indoors, sensible by most people outdoors; most wake up from sleep	Noise from vibration of doors, windows, and building frames; falling of dusts, small cracks in plasters, falling of some roof tiles, bricks falling from a few roof-top chimneys		Rocking or flipping of unstable objects	0.31 (0.22 - 0.44)	0.03 (0.02 - 0.04)
VI	Most unable to stand stably, a few scared to running outdoors	Damages - Cracks in the all, falling of roof tiles, some roof-top chimneys crack or fall apart	0 - 0.10	Cracks in river banks and soft soil; occasional burst of sand and water from saturated sand layers; cracks on some standalone chimneys	0.63 (0.45 - 0.89)	0.06 (0.05 - 0.09)
VII	Majority scared to running outdoors, sensible by bicycle riders and people in moving motor vehicles	Slight destruction - localized destruction, crack, may continue to be used with small repairs or without repair	0.11 - 0.30	Collapse of river banks; frequent burst of sand and water from saturated sand layers; many cracks in soft soils; moderate destruction of most standalone chimneys	1.25 (0.90 - 1.77)	0.13 (0.10 - 0.18)
VIII	Most swing about, difficult to walk	Moderate destruction - structural destruction, continued usage requires repair	0.31 - 0.50	Cracks appear in hard dry soils; severe destruction of most standalone chimneys; tree tops break; death of people and cattle caused by building destruction	2.50 (1.78 - 3.53)	0.25 (0.19 - 0.35)
IX	Moving people fall	Severe destruction - severe structural destruction, localized collapse, difficult to repair	0.51 - 0.70	Many cracks in hard dry soils; possible cracks and dislocations in base rocks; frequent land slide and collapses; collapse of many standalone chimneys	5.00 (3.54 - 7.07)	0.50 (0.36 - 0.71)
X	Bicycle riders may fall; people in unstable state may fall away; sense of being thrown up	Most collapse	0.71 - 0.90	Cracks of mountain rocks and earthquake fractures; destruction in top arches of base rocks; root damage or collapse of most standalone chimneys	10.00 (7.08 - 14.14)	1.00 (0.72 - 1.41)
XI		Wide spread collapse	0.91 - 1.00	Earthquake fractures extend a long way; many mountain rock cracks and land slide
XII				Drastic change in landscape, mountains, and rivers

Note about Qualifiers: "very few" - <10%; "few" - 10% - 50%; "most" - 50% - 70%; "majority" - 70% - 90%; "commonly" - >90%.

Quake Intensity

The map of earthquake intensity published by CEA after surveying 500,000 km² of the affected area shows a maximum liedu of XI on the China Seismic Intensity Scale (CSIS), described as "very destructive" on the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS) from which CSIS drew reference. (USGS, using Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM), also placed maximum intensity at XI, "very disastrous".) Two south-west-north-east stripes of liedu XI are centered around Yingxiu, Wenchuan and Beichuan, both in Sichuan Province, occupying a total of 2,419 km². The Yingxiu liedu-XI zone is about 66 km long and 20 km wide along Wenchuan-Dujiangyan-Pengzhou; the Beichuan liedu-XI zone is about 82 km long and 15 km wide along An County-Beichuan-Pingwu. The area with liedu X (comparable to X on EMS, "destructive" and X on MM, "disastrous") spans 3,144 km². The area affected by earthquakes exceeding liedu VI totals 440,442 km², occupying an oval 936 km long and 596 km wide, spanning three provinces and one autonomous region.