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Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts

This document discusses earthquakes and their impacts. It begins by explaining that earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, creating seismic waves. It then notes that earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, bridges, and people through shaking, landslides, fires, soil liquefaction, and tsunamis. The document also explains that most natural earthquakes are related to the movement of tectonic plates in the Earth's lithosphere. It concludes by listing some of the effects of earthquakes like shaking, landslides, fires, tsunamis, and impacts on humans, as well as some methods of preparing for and mitigating earthquakes.

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Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts

This document discusses earthquakes and their impacts. It begins by explaining that earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, creating seismic waves. It then notes that earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, bridges, and people through shaking, landslides, fires, soil liquefaction, and tsunamis. The document also explains that most natural earthquakes are related to the movement of tectonic plates in the Earth's lithosphere. It concludes by listing some of the effects of earthquakes like shaking, landslides, fires, tsunamis, and impacts on humans, as well as some methods of preparing for and mitigating earthquakes.

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INTRODUCTION

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's


crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a
seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude of
an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly
obsolete Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes
being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage
over large areas.
EARTHQUAKES CAUSE

Earthquakes cause damage to buildings, bridges, dams, and people. There can be
a great loss of lives. It can also create landslides, floods and tsunamis. A
tsunamis is a Japanese word meaning ''storm wave.'' It can travel very fast, and
the deeper the water, the faster they travel. As the waves come closer to shore,
the breakers can be as high as a 12 story building. In 1986 in Japan, entire towns
of 20,000 people were destroyed. There is a tsunami warning system that gives
people a chance to get away from the ocean.
NATURALLY OCCURRING
EARTHQUAKES

Most naturally occurring earthquakes are related to the tectonic


nature of the Earth. Such earthquakes are called tectonic
earthquakes. The Earth's lithosphere is a patchwork of plates in slow
but constant motion caused by the release to space of the heat in the
Earth's mantle and core. The heat causes the rock in the Earth to
become flow on geological timescales, so that the plates move
slowly but surely. Plate boundaries lock as the plates move past each
other, creating frictional stress.
EFFECTS/IMPACTS OF
EARTHQUAKES

Shaking and ground rupture


Landslides and avalanches
Fires
Soil liquefaction
Tsunamis
Human impacts
PREPARATION FOR
EARTHQUAKES

Earthquake preparedness
Household seismic safety
HurriQuake nail (for resisting hurricanes and earthquakes)
Seismic retrofit
Seismic hazard
Mitigation of seismic motion
Earthquake prediction

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