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Earthquakes often break gas mains, causing flammable natural gas to fill damaged spaces. This easily catches fire from electrical sparks or automobiles.
Power lines can cause fires due to damage by falling trees, buildings, and so on.
Earthquakes destroy kitchens, throwing cooking fuel around in places where kerosene, butane, or alcohol are used for fuel.
Earthquakes damage chimneys on homes and people unknowingly build fires which jump from damaged chimneys into attics and onto roofs.
To make matters worse, an earthquake can damage the water mains that supply the fire hydrants that are needed put out the fires.
The Great Fire of San Francisco (1906) was the result of an earthquake.
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Sometimes earthquakes cause fire How?
it can cause a fire if a house get knocked down and the electrical break a fire can start
Can earthquakes cause fire?
yes. Generally caused by ruptured natural gas lines.
Is a fire a secondary effect of earthquakes?
Fire is often, but not always a secondary effect of earthquakes. If the earthquake strikes a populated area, it is likely to break natural gas pipes, and to cause other damage in human structures that will result in fires. In an unpopulated region, an earthquake may not cause a fire.
Do lightning cause Earthquakes?
No, lightning does not cause earthquakes.
Do tsunamis cause earthquakes?
Earthquakes are one (but not the only) cause of tsunamis.
Do earthquakes have a geologic meteorological or human cause?
Earthquakes have a geological cause.
What percent of earths earthquakes occur along the ring of fire?
About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire.
What makes a country vulnerable to earthquakes?
If it is near the Ring of Fire (or Pacific Ring of Fire) it will be vulnerable to many earthquakes.
Why does the ring of fire have tsunamis volcanoes and earthquakes?
The Ring of Fire is also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. The yellow line is the location of the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is bascically where the Earth's tectonic plates have spread apart and cracked, allowing warm lava to rise and causing many earthquakes and volcanoes. Also, the plates here often shift and that is why there are often tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused underwater by onshore earthquakes that are very powerful.
Do badgers cause earthquakes?
No. See the related question below for what does cause earthquakes.
How can being a gay cause earthquakes?
Being gay cannot cause earthquakes.
Why are there more earthquakes on the western part of the US?
There are so many earthquakes on the west coast because the west coast is between tectonic plates. These plates move and cause earthquakes.
