Facts about earthquakes

Answer 1

1# earthquakes happen when boundries of plates (plates are under the earths crust and they break up the world like a jigsaw puzzle) move away from each other.

2# unfortuantly lots of people can die in bad earthquakes when buildings colapes and also the after shokes can cause worst effects

3#lots of earthquakes have happened- both major and minor

4# earthquakes is one of many natural disaters

5# old towns or towns with un correctly built buildings and roads suffer the worst - so check you house is well built if you aare expecting an earthquake to come round for tea

and that's all i know, =]

Answer 2

How earthquakes effect the earth?It destroys every thing.

such as roads, buildings, and all man made objects and nature.

it also injures people sometimes badly injures people and sometimes even kills people.

Answer 3

The recent Canterbury earthquake and the Christchurch earthquake both have excellent articles in wikipedia.org.

Additional information is available on the ecan.org website, and the site for Pegasus town, just north of the city has some good info on de-watering of unconsolidated soils.

Answer 4

earthquakes are when two plates push against one another and the friction between these two plates is where the earthquake begins. the center of the friction is called the focus and the place directly over the focus on the top of the plate is the epicenter. you know that an earthquake is going to happen when you get tremors; mini earthquakes 😊 hope I helped

Answer 5

• The USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) said the March 11, 2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake was the "biggest quake to hit Japan since record-keeping began in the late 1800s and one of the biggest ever recorded in the world".
• Damage due to buildings and infrastructure in 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting fires and explosions is estimated over $180 billion or 3 percent of Japan's annual economic output. Other estimates up to US $300 billion.
• NASA scientists reported that the displacement of land masses in Japan may have caused a shift in the axis of the Earth - by about 6.5 inches.
• USGS reported that the quake moved portions of northeastern Japan by as much as 2.4 m (7.9 ft) closer to North America and made portions of Japan's landmass wider than before.

Answer 6

happens everyday all around the world
Almost 80 percent of all the planet's earthquakes occur along the rim of the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 7

It has many parts and seis stands for shock.