Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

They measure tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita scale or the EF scale.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

There are six levels on the Fujita scale.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

They measure tornadoes on the Fujita scale.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"On the directive of the government, the army is now in full scale operation to eliminate,militants,miscreants and anti-state elements from Swat,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"There was an extraordinary embrace of the entire city of the Olympic Games, something I have never seen on this scale before.".

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The initial quake registered at magnitude 7 on the Richter Scale and was followed by several other shocks, including one that measured 5.9.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

The military is expected to launch a full-scale assault on Taliban militants in the region bordering Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The initial quake registered at magnitude 7 on the Richter Scale and was followed by several other shocks, including one that measures 5.9.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"If you see a number of scores on a hundred point scale on the 40,50,60 range that suggests that people are moving back and forth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

She says a four-year scientific study initiated by the World Bank says there is little role for genetic modification in feeding the poor on a large scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21