EARTHQUAKE+PROOF+BUILDINGS

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An Earthquake is a shake that is made by 2 tectonic plates that are being pushed up to the suface by force. When the earthquake hits the surface, it can sometimes make a volcanoe. Earthquakes are a natuarl disaster that can happen anywhere.

In New York, London and Australia they do not have as higher risk of an earthquake because they are in the middle of a tectonic plate. When they get an earthquake it is called an Intraplate eathquake. They are made by the tectonic plate snaping in the middle. Plate boundries are the end of a plate that meets with a nother one. The reason it is more likley to have an earthquake on a plate boundry is because when the force pushes it up it will come at tyhe break of the plates. Japan for instance is right on top of it so they get them alot and in a very high magnitude like 9.8 in 2011.

During an earthquake scientists measure the earthquake with a Richter Scale wich also shows the earth moving before the actual earthquake. After an earthquake people study the richter scale to see the kind of material they will need to build the houses and buildings. Although the people survived the earthquake it always a disaster.

In an earthquake there are 2 types of disaster. When a earthquake hits buildings and houses they fall from the blow. Buildings will fall and cause damage to the city. People get hurt badly and that cause money being lost and all of the difderent kinds of economic drammers.In the after math the city that was destroyed has lots of insurance to help recover but some don't do that. That is why if the building don't fall in the first place there would be less chance of a financail crises.

People with be safer, and everyone will benefit. In the photo (to the right) all of the buildings here have been destroyed.Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous natuaral disasters on this planet.

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this is a picture of an earthquake in 1979

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Answers corporation, Answers.com, 2010, [] ( 11 May 2011) Australian government, earthquake facts, 2008, [] ( 4 May 2011)