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This is the original full European Macroseismic Scale (ESM-98). The European Macroseismic Scale (EMS), developed on behalf of the European Seismological Commission and supported by the Council of Europe has become the basis for evaluation of seismic intensity not only in European countries but is in use on all continents. Issued in 1998 as a result of intensive worldwide application of its test version from 1992 (ESM-92), the scale is referred to as EMS-98. The European Macroseismic Scale is the first intensity scale designed to encourage co-operation between civil engineers and seismologists, rather than being for use by seismologists alone. It comes with detailed guidelines, which includes illustrations, photos for classifying typical damage pattern to building types, application examples, and specifications on assessing intensity from historical records. The EMS-98 proved as well as risk predictive tool, since its differentiation of structures (buildings) to vulnerability classes combined with its logic structure enables assessing seismic risk to, e. g., municipalities. More details on background information on establishing the EMS-98 can be found in the Introduction to the full scale.