write a paragraph on ‘Earthquake - A natural calamity’.
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It is a sudden trembling of the surface of the Earth. Earthquakes certainly are a terrible natural disaster. Furthermore, Earthquakes can cause huge damage to life and property. ... The major Earthquakes are almost always devastating in nature.
What are natural calamities? A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard - (e.g. flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, yenvironmental and/or human losses. The World is always changing.
Earthquake can be defined as the shaking of earth caused by waves moving on and below the earth's surface and causing: surface faulting, tremors vibration, liquefaction, landslides, aftershocks and/or tsunamis. Aggravating factors are the time of the event and the number and intensity of aftershocks.
Although it is impossible to prevent earthquake from occurring, it is possible to mitigate the effects and to reduce loss of life, injuries and damage. Beside tsunami, earthquakes can create many more disasters such as liquefaction, landslides, earth ruptures and most prominently ground vibration