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Impacts

What damage can earthquakes cause?

When the ground shakes, all the pipes and wires underneath can burst open or be ripped apart. This means that people may not have clean water, gas or electricity in their homes.

If an earthquake happens under the sea, a tsunami can occur, flooding cities. These can also harm people and destroy buildings.

Strong earthquakes can kill or hurt people. This also depends on how prepared a place is for an earthquake.

The shaking of the earth can cause huge chunks of land to fall away from the hills or mountains and crush people and buildings below. If it rains, these can turn into dangerous mudslides.

Fires can start when broken gas pipes meet with an electrical spark. This can damage buildings and injure people.

Earthquakes can split open roads, making it difficult for people to leave, find shelter or food and find friends and family.

Earthquakes can shake buildings so much that they fall or split open. It can cost a lot to rebuild these. If people are inside, this may cause death or injury.

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Seismometer

Shelters

Practise drills

How can people prepare for an earthquake?

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Shorter buildings

Plastic in windows

Rubber blocks on the bottom of buildings

Swaying structures

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