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Physical Land Destruction
Because an earthquake is literally the quaking of the earth, you can imagine that anything on the surface that is near the shaking will shake as well. Remember how your mother asked you not to run in the house? This is because if you run into something, like a china cabinet or a bookshelf, you could knock the contents loose. By bumping into the shelving, you shook everything that it was holding.
Earthquakes have the same affect on land. Landslides and mudslides are common events during an earthquake because the ground is shaken so much that it gets knocked loose and slides downhill, taking anything else down with it. Trees, houses, power lines, and anything else along the hill gets brought down when the land or mud comes sliding down. This is not only dangerous for people whose houses get destroyed, it also destroys the habitat along the hillside and at the bottom.
Liquefaction is another type of damage caused by earthquakes. This is when water-saturated sediment moves and acts like a liquid. You may have experienced this standing along the edge of a beach when the surf comes up. As the water comes up around your feet, it soaks the sand underneath, which then starts to move like a liquid instead of solid ground. During an earthquake, the ground shaking loosens moist soils in the area, which separates the particles, and the ground begins to act like a fluid. Liquefaction is very dangerous because the flowing ground can swallow up entire buildings and roads.
Tsunamis are large sea waves that arise from ocean earthquakes. Tsunamis are not just larger versions of ocean waves and are often like a large, rising tide. They can be tens of feet high and wash over large areas of coastal land. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is considered one of the deadliest natural disasters in history because it killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries.
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