Water pipes tend to fracture or crack when an earthquake occurs rather than burst (something bursts when the pressure applied to it's internal surface gets to large and exceeds the strength of the material is is formed from - a bit like if you force to much air into a balloon).
Pipes tend to fracture because the seismic waves make the ground move up and down, backwards and forwards and side to side. This causes the pipe to be bent in differing directions as well as being squashed and stretched. These compression, shear tensile and torsion force will, if they are large enough, create stresses within the pipe wall that are large enough to break it, forming a crack.
Earthquakes can cause water pipes, gas pipes, and underground sewers to burst or break, refineries to be damaged, etc. which causes pollution.
Often much of the damage during earthquakes comes from fires and flooding caused by damaged utilities. Gas pipes or water mains can be broken during the earthquakes. Flexible joints in the lines can protect them from breakage and automatic shut-off valves can be used to stop gas and water flow.
Mechanical weathering occurs when physical forces break rock into smaller and smaller pieces without changing the rock's composition. Each piece has the same characteristics as the original rock. When liquid water freezes and expands, it exerts an outward force. This force is great enough to burst water pipes during winter.
Broken water pipes would be the main reason. In some cases tsunamis follow earthquakes in costal regions as we have seen in Japan.
Broken water pipes would be the main reason. In some cases tsunamis follow earthquakes in coastal regions as we have seen in Japan. water may rise from the earth and flood also
Earthquakes can cause water pipes, gas pipes, and underground sewers to burst or break, refineries to be damaged, etc. which causes pollution.
Anomalous expansion of water and bursting of water pipes during winter is because ice takes more space than water
water expands on freezing
They freeze. Water expands when it freezes and the pipe breaks.
Becuase when water freezes, it expands and burst the pipe from the inside.
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Because when water freezes it expands thus bursting the pipes.
Water freezes at 0 deg C. As the water freezes in the pipes, it expands and it is the force of expansion which causes the pipes to burst.
A plumber is a tradesman (or woman) who mends burst water pipes.
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Water EXPANDS as it freezes, hello.
water pipes burst due to expansion of water in colder regions.