what is an earthquakes

• What is an earthquake?
• Why do earthquakes happen?

Crust - plates - converging, diverging, continental and oceanic

• Where do Earthquakes happen?

Ring of fire

Examples of Earthquakes

• Where are most of the impacts of Earthquakes?

Landslides

Liquefaction

What happens to cities and buildings

What happens to people

Tsunamis

• What was the strongest earthquake ever?
• How are earthquakes measured? (magnitude, richter scale).

What is an earthquake?

Earthquakes is a disaster that can destroy buildings and damage people. Earthquakes only happens when a two tectonic plates rub each other which can tshake ground and destroy rocks. Earthquakes 7 Major earthquakes happen every year. If You look at a Richter Scale There are 10 levels from Unfelt to Super.

What was the strongest earthquake ever?

The world's strongest earthquakes is the Shaanxi earthquake which  can kill about 830,000 people Which is so Crazy because if 830,000 people has died from that crazy earthquakes it must have destroy about 940,000 .

Why do earthquakes Happen?

It happens when the rock underground breaks. When it breaks it release energy to shake the ground. When your house to epicenter your will crash the more closer to the epicenter the more damage you get.

How are earthquakes measured?

These Earthquakes are measured by a Richter Scale. The Richter scale can measure the magnitude and how strong the earthquakes are.

1 Unfelt 2 great 3  

Where are most of the impacts of Earthquakes? Earthquake mostly happen in the ring of fire. It is mostly there because of the movement. Also because there is a lot of fault lines. Fault lines are were heaps of earthquake happen to.