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It depends on what the magnitude of the earthquake is. For example, if the magnitude were to be a I, people on the surface would not be able to feel it. Moving to III, a slight tremor may occur, where lamps swing and such. If the earthquake were to have a magnitude of six, damage will occur. Plaster ceilings will fall, windows cracked, and so on. As the magnitude of the earthquakes increase, so does the damage.

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In fact, most earthquakes are so small they are not even felt.

The USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) estimates that several million earthquakes occur in the world each year and go undetected because they hit remote areas or have very small magnitudes.

Only a small portion of earthquakes are destructive and fewer are significantly destructive. But when a major earthquake does occur in a populated area then it causes a lot of damage.

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yes earthquakes have collapsed buildings and split roads in half and they can cause other natural disasters like

  1. tsunamis
  2. volcanoes

hurricanes only cause one natural disaster and that's tornadoes

earthquake death toll often reach into the thousands like the January 12 2010 Haiti earthquake that killed more than 250000 people

hurricanes death toll sometimes often reach thousands but their death toll is not high enough by earthquakes

earthquakes damage often reach in the billions and hurricanes sometimes often do

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In fact most earthquakes are so small they are not even felt.

The USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) estimates that several million earthquakes occur in the world each year and go undetected because they hit remote areas or have very small magnitudes. Only a small portion of earthquakes are destructive and fewer are significantly destructive. But when a major earthquake does occur it causes a lot of damage.

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Earthquakea are dangrous because they can destroy allmost anything and the are deadly because the can kill a person easily.

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earthquakes are deadly because they can kill alot of people

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No. In most cases earthquakes below magnitude 3.0 cannot even be felt by humans. Major damage does not usually occur in Earthquakes below magnitude 5.0.

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Im most cases it is the most dangerous place to be because at that locus the seismic activity is at its strongest.

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