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An earthquake can cause tsunami, landslides, mudslides, bigger earthquakes, "after shocks", significant damage to property and buildings, deaths and injuries to people and animals, floods, major disasters and emergency situations.

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1) People are injured or killed by collapsing buildings,

2) Buildings and bridges are destroyed, roads are slit open or torn apart and dams are destroyed causing floods,

3) Electricity, water and gas supplies are cut off,

4) At homes gas line breaks cause fires, properties are destroyed,

5) Main gas pipes break, electrical wires are torn down and both cause fires,

6) Landslides and rock slides block roads,

7) If earthquakes happen on ocean floors, it would cause tsunami and all the devastation they can also cause.
causing a fault
Earthquakes are caused by movements of plates underneath the Earth's surface. The places where these plates meet are breaks in the Earth's crust called faults.

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