Write about five losses caused by an earthquake
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Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged property. For decades, experts have studied major earthquakes; most have focused on fatalities and destruction in terms of the primary effects, the shaking unleash
♦Loss of human lives : The average is at least 15,000 people killed every year by earthquakes.
♦Loss of Human property: Great damage is inflicted by earthquakes to buildings,roads, railways,dams,canals, bridges,etc. Sometimes the loss to property may be worth millions of dollars.
♦ Collapse of Buildings: Buildings are knocked off their foundations, e.g. in Alaska in 1964, the huge facade of a departmental store fell off onto the pedestrians passing by.
♦ Landslides: Liquefactions of soil can cause severe damage and change of landscape, e.g. the New Madrid quake that changed the course of River Mississippi.
♦Fires: They usually break out following earthquakes due to flammable material being thrown onto broken gas lines, fires that are burning, etc.
♦Flash floods: It is rapid flooding of low lying areas due to heavy rainfall.
♦Tsunamis: Tsunami is a seismic wave . It is a Japanese term. Under the impact of severe earthquakes they cause unimaginable damage to life and property especially in the coastal areas.
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