write a short note on destructive effects
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mark as brainliest
Explanation:
The destructive effects of earthquakes are from landslides, tsunamis, fires, and fault rupture. The violent shaking of the ground produces the greatest property losses and personal injuries.
In California, the collapse of buildings, roads and infrastructure produced eight of the ten costliest earthquakes in the last one hundred years. The U.S. Geological Survey reports there is a 72 percent probability that an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or larger will strike the San Francisco Bay area within the next 30 years. Southern California has a 60% chance of experiences an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.7 in the same timeframe.
WHY ARE EARTHQUAKES DANGEROUS?
The damage caused by earthquakes is from ground shaking, ground rupture, landslides, tsunamis, and liquefaction. Earthquake damage from fires is the most important secondary effect.
The Ridgecrest earthquakes that hit on July 4 and July 5, 2019 with a magnitude 6.4 and 7.1, respectively, were the most recent major earthquakes in Southern California. The second quake with a magnitude 7.1 lasted 12 seconds and was felt by about 30 million people from Sacramento to San Diego. More than 6,000 homes lost power.
The Ridgecrest earthquakes followed a 25-year "quiet period" after the Northridge earthquake. Northridge, at a 6.7 magnitude earthquake, killed 58 people, injured more than 9,000 and caused more than $49 billion in economic loss.
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causing a lot of harm or damage
Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury. [...] destructiveness uncountable noun. destructively adverb.