Impact of an Earthquake
Earthquakes have a lot of impact on the environment, people and housing.
Earthquakes
affects a Large number of People by breaking houses ,cities and even small
villages.The number of deaths is indescribable the death toll can go up to over
2,000,000.
Most earthquake-related deaths are caused by the collapse of structures and the
construction practices play a tremendous role in the death toll of an
earthquake.
Earthquakes have a major impact on peoples lives.
Earthquakes cause fires that kill and burn builldings to the gound.
They can destory whole towns and family members can be trapped under
rubble inside the house.While this is happening sometimes tsunami is being created and will destory everything in its path.
This includes buildings homes and the environment.
Theres a sudden earthquake and causes a landslide everyone is burried alive,but if you live in a big city theres a good chance you'll
survive.
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The san francisco earthquake was caused by movement ontheSan Andreas Fault the epicentrewas 2 miles off the shoreof
San francisco bay. Trees waved,fields rippled,buildings swayed,water mains burst,gas lines broke,wires snapped and sparked.
Flames euruped and burnt down buildings and no water to fight fires 28,000 buildings destroyed 3,000 people killed and 225,000