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Is a earthquake destructive

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because it shakes the world and knocks everything over.

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Earthquake is a deadly disater. It can caused other disaters. It might shake the ocean causing a tsunami and shakes the hill causing serious landslides. It will destroy all buildings in a community. An earthquake can make a huge loss of population and finicial loss of money. Millions of people die because of earthquakes.

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12y ago

Because when the plates are pushing against each other for a moment they don't move. After a while the pressure becomes too much and there is a sudden jolt. This sudden jolt releases a large amount of energy that creates a large amount of destruction. The miss placement of land and soil also is very destructive towards buildings, such as the Haiti earthquake.

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it depends on the scale of the earthquake and where it hits. For example, a big earthquake will cause large amounts of damage in a well built area but will cause hardley any damage in a not very wel built up area. Also a small earthquake could cause a large amount of damage in a place where the soil/ground is lose/wet. Hope i helped high-5 yay

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They can result from doing nothing at all (In fact, most earthquakes are so weak that nobody can even feel it!) to destroying building, killing people, and causing tsunamis! (In fact, some are even stronger!)

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Because, it shakes the ground and moves plates around, and we live above ground you can fall and feel the plates move around

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