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Earthquakes. By Mitchell and Yi. How Earthquakes happens. Earthquakes happen when the plates move. Earthquakes can be form by divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries. Where earthquakes first start.
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Earthquakes By Mitchell and Yi
How Earthquakes happens • Earthquakes happen when the plates move. Earthquakes can be form by divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries.
Where earthquakes first start • Earthquakes first start at the focus and most effective by the epicenter. When shock waves go farther from the epicenter it has less power.
Measuring earthquakes • Some earthquakes cannot be felt, and on the Richter scale it measure 1-2. Seismic waves are measured by the Richter scale. This is a picture of the Richter scale.
There are many different earthquakes • There are a minor earthquakes, light earthquakes, moderate earthquakes, strong earth quakes, major earthquakes, and great earthquakes.
Many earthquakes happen each day • About one hundred thousand earthquakes happened about each year. • A earthquake that we cannot feel and 8,000 happen each day.
Earthquakes are really dangerous • Earthquakes may kill up to millions of people each year. • They leave many people homeless. • If earthquakes starts in the water they cause a tsunami. • They can damage miles away.