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Earthquakes can cause tsunami's and destroy building. If they are power full enough they can break gas pipes and cause great fires.
If you are inside of a building during an earthquake, falling debris and electrical equipment can trap, hurt, or even kill you
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe dangers include: Collapsing buildings, walls, bridges, falling furniture or objects, shattering glass windows and mirrors, ground displacement, flooding and fire. Most of the hazards to people come from man-made structures themselves and the shaking they receive from the earthquake.
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∙ 12y agoMost injures and deaths due to earthquakes are not directly caused by the movement of the ground. People also get injured or killed by collapsing buildings and other structures and by fires.
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∙ 10y agothey shake the earth and it can kill many people
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∙ 13y agothe dangers of an earthquake is that is destroys houses, many lives of people, causes starvation, loads of injured people and many deaths of being crushed.
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∙ 14y agoMud, and land slides kill many people during earthquakes, as well as falling buildings.
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∙ 10y agoEarthquakes are dangerous because they can cause buildings to collapse and kill or injure people.
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