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Write an 258 Words Short Essay on an Earthquake

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Essay on Earthquake – A Natural Calamity

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Sample Essay on Earthquake – A Natural Calamity. India has been blessed by nature and that is for the entire world to envy, be it mineral resources, be it huge forests or densely wooded hills and huge cascading waterfalls joining together to form mighty rivers. We have got a huge coastline too both to the east and the west most of the rivers finding their outlets in the seas.

It is nature in all its bountiful resources, the unfathomable power just waiting to be tapped fruitfully. Also nature in all its awesome glory, beautiful, mindboggling and favorable.

But for all these blessings there are negative sides too, some due to over-exploitation, some due to nature’s wrath and it would not be wrong to say that there is nothing more destructive than when nature is furious or making adjustments.

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There is a long history of devastating earthquakes in our country and all over the world and they have been taking place with monotonous regularity.

The crust of over planet is built up of several solid rock faces which are not static. They are moving slowly even by millimeters, with thickness of plates and depths ranging from 30 to 80 kilometers below the surface. These huge moving plates have diversions separating them from other plates and are termed boundaries.

Earthquakes take place when these slowly moving plates clash with each other and are forced to rise or even when the individual fault lines in plates are in assertions causing interpolate quakes.

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The quakes are caused by the release of elastic energy during these fault assertions or plate movements and are released in the form of seismic waves or shock waves travelling outwards in all directions. The epicenter is the point above the quake centre and is the place where maximum destruction occurs.

The earth’s crust is built up of such innumerable plates called tectonic plates and the effect of the quake, as mentioned earlier, is for some assertive fault in one plate or the effect of impact of two separate plates. This does not mean that there is any succession of related impacts continuously due to the impact on the previous one.