Rank These "Felt Reports" for an Earthquake Affecting Southernmost Vancouver

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Short Answer

Rank these "felt reports" for an earthquake affecting southernmost Vancouver Island, based on their Mercalli intensity value:
A: Everyone in the Happy Valley suburb runs outside, all newer houses survive but one old barn collapsed.
B: People inside the shops along Esquimalt Road felt it but few outside did so.The guy in the dry
cleaners thought a truck had hit the building.
C: One and two storey wooden houses along East Sooke Road are destroyed, the small bridge across the head of the inlet collapsed as did rock walls along Gillespie Road.Open cracks are prevalent in unconsolidated sediments around Sooke Inlet and there was a small mud geyser near Whiffen Spit.
D: Tilted telephone poles and scaffolding outside a leaky condo pulled away near 6 mile Pub in Colwood.Many people outside noted tall trees and poles that seemed to sway without the wind blowing.

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