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    Earthquakes: Collateral Effects: Nepal's Earthquake Destruction

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    Most earthquakes are caused by the buildup and sudden release of stress along fault lines in the earth's crust due to the movement of tectonic plates. As the opposing blocks of rock slip past one another, vibrations are generated that travel through the earth in wave form. Common effects of earthquakes include ground shaking near the epicenter that causes structural damage, fault ruptures at the earthquake location, landslides triggered by the shaking, and damage to infrastructure that depends on the type of construction. The recent 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal killed over 3,000 people and left many homeless amid the rubble of destroyed buildings and ancient temples in Kathmandu.

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    Most earthquakes are caused by the buildup and sudden release of stress along fault lines in the earth's crust due to the movement of tectonic plates. As the opposing blocks of rock slip past one another, vibrations are generated that travel through the earth in wave form. Common effects of earthquakes include ground shaking near the epicenter that causes structural damage, fault ruptures at the earthquake location, landslides triggered by the shaking, and damage to infrastructure that depends on the type of construction. The recent 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal killed over 3,000 people and left many homeless amid the rubble of destroyed buildings and ancient temples in Kathmandu.

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    Most earthquakes are caused by the buildup and sudden release of stress along fault lines in the earth's crust due to the movement of tectonic plates. As the opposing blocks of rock slip past one another, vibrations are generated that travel through the earth in wave form. Common effects of earthquakes include ground shaking near the epicenter that causes structural damage, fault ruptures at the earthquake location, landslides triggered by the shaking, and damage to infrastructure that depends on the type of construction. The recent 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal killed over 3,000 people and left many homeless amid the rubble of destroyed buildings and ancient temples in Kathmandu.

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    Earthquakes: Collateral Effects: Nepal's Earthquake Destruction

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    Most earthquakes are caused by the buildup and sudden release of stress along fault lines in the earth's crust due to the movement of tectonic plates. As the opposing blocks of rock slip past one another, vibrations are generated that travel through the earth in wave form. Common effects of earthquakes include ground shaking near the epicenter that causes structural damage, fault ruptures at the earthquake location, landslides triggered by the shaking, and damage to infrastructure that depends on the type of construction. The recent 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal killed over 3,000 people and left many homeless amid the rubble of destroyed buildings and ancient temples in Kathmandu.

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    Causes of Earthquakes

    Most earthquakes are causally related to compressional or tensional stresses built up at the margins of
    the huge moving lithospheric plates that make up the earth's surface (seelithosphere). The immediate
    cause of most shallow earthquakes is the sudden release of stress along a fault, or fracture in the earth's
    crust, resulting in movement of the opposing blocks of rock past one another. These movements cause
    vibrations to pass through and around the earth in wave form, just as ripples are generated when a
    pebble is dropped into water. Volcanic eruptions, rockfalls, landslides, and explosions can also cause a
    quake, but most of these are of only local extent. Shock waves from a powerful earthquake can trigger
    smaller earthquakes in a distant location hundreds of miles away if the geologic conditions are favorable.

    Earthquakes: collateral effects


    The energy released from an earthquake can be up to 10,000 times more powerful than
    the first atomic bomb. Its side-effects can be:

    Ground shaking
    Shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves, especially surface
    waves near theepicentre of the earthquake are responsible for the most damage during
    an earthquake

    Faulting and Ground Rupture

    When an earthquake event occurs, ground rupture is only where the fault zone moves

    Landslides and ground subsidence


    Avalanches, landslides, slumps and rock slides are triggered by ground shaking. These
    landslides are often more destructive than the earthquakes

    Damage to man-made structures


    Damage to man-made structures, such as roads, bridges, dams and buildings from
    ground motion depends on the type of construction:

    concrete and masonry structures are brittle and thus more susceptible to
    damage and collapse;
    damage to wood and steel structures is far less because of its flexibility.

    Nepal's earthquake destruction

    More than 3,000 dead as magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits Himalayan nation of 27
    million.

    Al Jazeera and Agencies |

    | Natural disasters, Asia, Earthquake, Nepal

    An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the perceptible shaking of the
    surface of the Earth, which can be violent enough to destroy major buildings and kill
    thousands of people. The severity of the shaking can range from barely felt to violent enough
    to toss people around. Earthquakes have destroyed whole cities. They result from the

    sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that Death

    and destruction in

    Nepal
    BY KEVIN RAFFERTY

    SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES


    OSAKA Death and destruction have dominated recent news. Mass media deserted the
    tragedy of migrants fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and being smuggled to Europe in
    overladen boats. They had found a more powerful disaster, and rushed to earthquakesavaged Nepal.
    Heart-wrenching scenes in Kathmandu of bewildered homeless people amidst the
    rubble of ancient temples were vividly beamed into comfortable living rooms thousands
    of miles away, showing how ruthless is the destructive power of nature. Three days after
    the quake, confusion still reigned: one man said sadly that he had received a single
    packet of noodles to eat but did not know whether it had been provided by the
    government or by some NGO.

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