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    Earthquakes can cause many dangers and hazards to people. The main dangers come from the collapse of man-made structures during the shaking from an earthquake. When buildings collapse, it can crush and kill people inside. Other hazards include drowning during flooding from broken dams or levees, being buried under landslides, or dying in fires that start from broken gas lines or power lines. Earthquakes can also trigger soil liquefaction, landslides, tsunamis, and floods that endanger human life.

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    Earthquakesby Thra

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    Earthquakes can cause many dangers and hazards to people. The main dangers come from the collapse of man-made structures during the shaking from an earthquake. When buildings collapse, it can crush and kill people inside. Other hazards include drowning during flooding from broken dams or levees, being buried under landslides, or dying in fires that start from broken gas lines or power lines. Earthquakes can also trigger soil liquefaction, landslides, tsunamis, and floods that endanger human life.

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    Earthquakes can cause many dangers and hazards to people. The main dangers come from the collapse of man-made structures during the shaking from an earthquake. When buildings collapse, it can crush and kill people inside. Other hazards include drowning during flooding from broken dams or levees, being buried under landslides, or dying in fires that start from broken gas lines or power lines. Earthquakes can also trigger soil liquefaction, landslides, tsunamis, and floods that endanger human life.

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    Earthquakesby Thra

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    Rhea Shah
    Earthquakes can cause many dangers and hazards to people. The main dangers come from the collapse of man-made structures during the shaking from an earthquake. When buildings collapse, it can crush and kill people inside. Other hazards include drowning during flooding from broken dams or levees, being buried under landslides, or dying in fires that start from broken gas lines or power lines. Earthquakes can also trigger soil liquefaction, landslides, tsunamis, and floods that endanger human life.

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    DANGERS CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKES

    Most of the hazards to people come from man-


    made structures themselves and the shaking they
    receive from the earthquake.
    The real dangers to people are being crushed in a
    collapsing building, drowning in a flood caused by a
    broken dam or levee, getting buried under a
    landslide, or being burned in a fire.

     Shaking and ground rupture-causes death as


    many buildings and other rigid structures
    collapse. The amount of damage depends on
    strength of earthquake. The ground rupture
    sometimes meters deep and is very visible to
    the eyes. major risk for large engineering
    structures like dams, bridges, nuclear power
    stations….
     Landslide/ landslip and avalanches – landslides
    cause a wide range of ground movement
    causing rocks to fall, slopes flow due to pressure
    (occurs offshore, onshore, coastal…) avalanches
    are a rapid flow of snow down a slope, from either
    natural triggers or human activity. Typically occurring in
    mountainous terrain, an avalanche can mix air and water
    with the descending snow.
     Fires- these fires can be started by broken gas
    lines and power lines, or tipped over wood or
    coal stoves. They can be a serious problem,
    especially if the water lines that feed the fire
    hydrants are broken, too.
     Soil liquefaction-is when the strength and
    stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake
    shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction
    occurs in saturated soils, that is, soils in which
    the space between individual particles is
    completely filled with water. This water exerts a
    pressure on the soil particles that influences how
    tightly the particles themselves are pressed
    together. Prior to an earthquake, the water
    pressure is relatively low. However, earthquake
    shaking can cause the water pressure to
    increase to the point where the soil particles can
    readily move with respect to each other.
    Earthquake shaking often triggers this increase
    in water pressure, but construction related
    activities such as blasting could also cause an
    increase in water pressure. Some examples are
    quicksand, quick clay, turbidity, and currents…
     Tsunami-tidal wave is a series of water waves
    caused by the displacement of a large volume of
    the body, (lake and ocean)
     Floods-an earthquake can break dams and
    levees along a river. The water from the river or
    the reservoir would then flood the area,
    damaging buildings and maybe sweeping away
    or drowning people.
     Human impacts-causes disease to spread, lack of
    basic necessities, loss of life, higher insurance premiums,
    general ,property damage, road and bridge damage, and
    collapse.
     Mudslide-it’s a downhill movement; It is a rapid movement
    of a large mass of mud formed from loose soil and water. Its
    also called mudflow or mud stream…
     This structural failure -refers to loss of load
    carrying capacity of a component.
    -Structural shaking- Earthquakes are a severe structural
    hazard that causes vibrations in the structures due to the ground
    shaking. If the structures are weak, or extremely rigid to withstand
    severe vibrations, then these may collapse. The tall buildings may
    experience extreme vibrations due to their height, and may fall down
    or into each other. Other destructive effects on structures due to an
    earthquake are sliding away from their foundations, and their
    horizontal or vertical movements that may make the structures unsafe.
     Other things that happen are walls collapse,
    electrical fore, glass shatter and kill people,
    hoardings on the road fall and pierce through ,
    cable wires are shaken , projections (near) not
    safe .

    -RHEA SHAH
    THANK U 

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