Cause And Effects Of The Mexican Earthquake

Earthquakes have the potential to destroy and cause a lot of harm or they just make the ground shake a little. Sometimes earthquakes with low magnitudes cause a lot of harm, and a high magnitude one causes a small amount of damage. This usually isn’t the case. Two Earthquakes with high magnitudes each caused a different amount of damage. These two are the earthquake that happened in Sumatra, Indonesia in December 26, 2004, and the earthquake that happened in Rat Island , Alaska in April 2, 1965.

Over more than 50 decades there has been multiple earthquakes that have been caused by the activity that takes place beneath and above the surface of the earth. For every earthquake there are various effects and consequences, these are generally not preventable but teachable moments. As we study and explore landforms we learn and better understand how today 's structures came about, what took place decades ago and where do we go from here. Thanks to the technology and inquiring minds we are able to study past events like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1964 Alaska earthquake. In comparing these two events we can get an overview of what happened and better prepare ourselves for something like that in the future.

Long-term impacts Disease may spread. People may have to be re-housed, sometimes in refugee camps. The cost of rebuilding a settlement is high. Investment in the area may be focused only on repairing the damage caused by the earthquake. Income could be lost. Important natural and human landmarks may be

An earthquake is where two transform plate boundaries slide and creak the earth. This is what happened in the Philippines. Although it was in 2013 the people are still in need of help to get back to their daily lives. The Philippines earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1. This earthquake was gigantic, and it took down many buildings that were in its path. Lucky the children were not in school that day because of the Muslim holidays the earthquake caused the school to collaspe. If the children were in school, then it would have killed most of the kids.There were 2,100 aftershocks. The day of the quake was October 15, 2013. People respond to a natural disaster by gathering materials and donations, spreading the word, and the government's aid.

A ‘hazard’ can be defined as a geophysical process operating within the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere or biosphere which could potentially lead to the loss of human life or property. However, an earthquake only becomes hazardous and therefore needs management if it occurs within close proximity to a vulnerable population. To some extent, any human settlement around the world situated close to or on top of an area of seismic activity is vulnerable. However, not all nations suffer equal devastation.

According to Statista, “In 2010, about 320,120 people died as a result of earthquakes worldwide.” If the policies regarding earthquakes are changed, the number of casualties as a result of earthquakes can be lessened and the amount lives that are saved will be increased. The current amount of casualties as a result of earthquakes

Earthquakes have been recorded throughout history for thousands of years. Even before seismographs in early times, there are records and accounts of mysterious ground shaking. Earthquakes occur when rocks break along an underground fault (UPSeis, 2007). This, in return, causes vibrations through the earth which causes ground shaking. The magnitude of the shaking varies depending on how great the movement along the fault is; the greater the movement, the bigger the earthquake. Some earthquakes are huge and cause significant damage, while others are small and cause little or no damage what-so-ever. Earthquakes are unpredictable, and can happen at any time. It is uncertain where an earthquake will strike, but there is a greater risk

According to Brillinger (2011), earthquakes were recorded after happening to get an earthquake statistics. Earthquakes may be large or small, serious or trivial; however, the higher the magnitude, the greater the damage to a particular location and the surrounding area. Earthquakes can also create other natural disasters, like tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, which bring more dangerous disasters than earthquakes. Statistics of earthquakes can be extremely important for it can give governments plans to do rebuilding after earthquakes, can help scientists better detect and anticipate earthquakes, and can provide more information to public to learn about earthquakes. It is helpful to take a look at existed statistics; from the website of US government,

Earthquakes are a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust. You can’t know when or how much the damage of the shock will be. I think that predicting earthquakes is a bad science because of how often and not they happen.

Earthquakes affect people in different ways like either mentally or physically or even both. People in most country's around the ring of fire would be used to earthquakes because that is where most of them happen, but the people that live where big earthquakes happen will not get used to them because they would be on edge all the time wondering when the next one will hit. In japan they had a 9.1 earthquake at 2:46pm on the 11th of March 2011. The earthquake was then followed by a 133ft tsunami. It would have affected a lot of people in japan because nearly 20,000 people died in the earthquake/tsunami and it will cost them around $38,540,760 to fix the damage.

Did you know that earthquakes can build mountains and volcanoes,destroy houses, lose of jobs, and it have even killed people.An earthquake is when two contients hit together really hard to form a volcanoes or mountains. Gondwana was from 250 years ago. In the blog, there was blue smoke everywhere and helicopters clatter the sky. In the news report, the Loma Prieta Earthquake, killed people and take lots of people out of their houses.In the insurance claim, it would cost over milloins of dollars to fix your home.Earthqukes have an effect on people, earth, and properties.

Purpose: Everyone will think that we are living in a peaceful state now and ignore to pay attention to the natural disaster information. On the contrary, this thought in your mind will reduce your sense of crisis. Believe or not, increase a sense of crisis of the earthquake and learn more earthquake information can decrease the damage when the earthquakes occur in our life

     An Earthquake is the shaking of the earth's surface caused by rapid movement of the earth's rocky outer layer. The sudden shaking of the ground that occurs when masses of rock change position below the Earth's surface is called an earthquake. The shifting masses send out shock waves that may be powerful enough to alter the surface of the Earth, thrusting up cliffs and opening great cracks in the ground.

An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. We know that tectonic plates move slowly towards, away from or past each other. Continents are parts of these plates which means they move too after time. An earthquake occurs when the rocks break and move as a result stresses caused by plate tectonics. but sometimes they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the edges overcome Earthquakes are the most deadly of all natural disasters. When an earthquake strikes, it can make a difference between life and death. If you survive an earthquake it’s something you’ll never forget. Most of the time it's not the quake that kills people but the building and the things inside it that fall down. It can destroy pipelines, gas lines that can cause fire and zero electricity. Usually there are aftershocks for weeks or months. For example, the earthquake that happened in San Francisco, California on October 17,1989. It was a really destructive earthquake that killed people and billions of dollars in damages.

Earthquake is considered as a disaster which leads to damage or destruction in a particular place. This disaster occurs due various reasons firstly; when two plates move or slide pass each other enormous tension builds up which creates waves of energy in all directions that leads to quake. Lastly human activities such as nuclear testing, coal mining, constructing dams or drilling of oil create earthquakes. In the world approximately thousands of earthquakes occur each day; it has become a major problem for all countries. Earthquake can take place in any country, it is a natural disaster therefore it cannot be prevented from its occurrence.