Damages brought by earthquakes:
1) People are injured or killed by collasping buildings
2) Buildings and bridges are destroyed, roades are sliped ope nand dams are destroyed thus causes floodings
3)Electricity, water and gas supplies are cut off
4)At home, cooker and heater ae fall over and causes fire, properties are destroyed
5)Gas piper break and electricty wires are torn down and causes fire
6) Landslides block roads
7) If earthquakes happen on ocean floors, it would cause tsunamis and great sea waves rush in and drown people and buildings on coastal flat land
Japan had Tsunami and an Earthquake Kansas had an earthquake
The earthquake flattened the entire town.There was an earthquake yesterday.It is predicted that an earthquake along the San Andreas fault in the US would be the most devastating in history.
The highest earthquake reading on the Richter scale is 9.5 when an earthquake struck Chilie
The origin of an earthquake is called the hypocenter or focus. This is the point underground where the earthquake rupture begins.
A small earthquake that happens after a larger one is called an aftershock. Aftershocks happen because the crust in the area where the main earthquake happened is adjusting to the earthquake's effects.
An earthquake's Focus is located directly under the Epicenter of an earthquake. The Epicenterof an earthquake is located on the surface of the earthquake.
Japan had Tsunami and an Earthquake Kansas had an earthquake
The 1933 Sanriku earthquake was a major earthquake.
It was a 9.0 level earthquake
No, the Haiti earthquake in 2010 was not the strongest earthquake ever recorded. The strongest earthquake ever recorded was the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile, which had a magnitude of 9.5 on the Richter scale.
yes the Hawkes bay earthquake is the some as the Napier earthquake
It's a smaller (or sometimes larger) earthquake after the main earthquake
its just earthquake
an inactive earthquake
The Hanshin earthquake occurred in Japan while the Chinese earthquake obviously occurred in China.
Earthquake waves are called seismic waves.
There was a big earthquake in 2010 in Haiti. The earthquake was 7.0