If it is strong enough it could rip the building to shreads. It would all fall apart and break.
Approximately 130,000 houses were destroyed by the earthquake that struck Japan in 2011.
If you take into account all earthquakes in all locations that have ever happened, and I assume you only mean houses built by humans, then the average number of houses destroyed would round off to zero. Hope this helps.
San Rafael was not destroyed by fire. The city has not been demolished or destroyed by a major earthquake.
San Francisco was destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 1906. The earthquake, which occurred on April 18, was followed by numerous fires that ravaged the city, causing widespread destruction and loss of life.
The city that was destroyed by an earthquake in 1923 was Tokyo in Japan. The Great Kanto Earthquake struck on September 1, 1923, resulting in widespread destruction and fires that destroyed large parts of the city. It remains one of the deadliest earthquakes in Japanese history.
Approximately 130,000 houses were destroyed by the earthquake that struck Japan in 2011.
Approximately 100,000 homes were damaged in the 2010 Christchurch earthquake, with an estimated 10,000 houses severely damaged or destroyed.
The exact number of houses destroyed in the Valdivia earthquake of 1960 is not known, but it is estimated that tens of thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed due to the severity of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The earthquake, which was the most powerful ever recorded, caused widespread devastation in the region.
About 381,000 of the more than 694,000 houses were damaged or destroyed.
The effects were... ~ Lots of people lost their lives ~ Many families were destroyed ~ Many houses and buildings were destroyed ~ A lot of money loss
houses and peoples lives
If you take into account all earthquakes in all locations that have ever happened, and I assume you only mean houses built by humans, then the average number of houses destroyed would round off to zero. Hope this helps.
Many types of makeshift temporary shelters can be built, including tents.
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed or severely damaged about 4,000 schools.
an estimation is about 50,000 houses
Sadly the only benefit of a earthquake, is that it brings down the population, and you have to rebuild houses that fall in a better way, earthquake resistant buildings. Poor people get to reconstruct the buildings which are destroyed and if they do it they get money.
it caused a lot of damage actually. It destroyed houses and left 4,000 people missing.