Japan In Devastation Japan In Devastation

By: Sean Hanlon

Why/How Earthquakes and Tsunamis occur

• Earthquakes occur when transform boundaries collide.

• Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, submarine landslides, large meteorite impact and submarine volcanic eruptions

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Where earthquakes and Tsunamis occur

• Most earthquakes occur on or near tectonic plate edges. Also on faults.

• Tsunamis occur in the ocean and then hit the shore with great power.

• A fault is a crack in the surface of the earth.

Danger to humans

• Earthquakes and Tsunamis are very dangerous to humans and cause a lot of death and destruction.

• Earthquakes mainly cause buildings to collapse and sadly, crushing many people that are in its way. They can also cause gas leaks which can kill people in the long term with cancer, or lung problems.

Danger to humans continued

• The intense shaking of the earth can cause many dangerous situations.

• The shaking causes, land and mud slides, structural collapse, fires which can lead to explosions and they cause Tsunamis.

• Flooding is also caused

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The worlds worst.

• The worlds worst earthquake ever was in Chile, South America in 1960

• It was a 9.5 out of 10 on the Richter scale

• A devastating 1,655 people died

• 3,000 were injured

• 2,000,000 were left homeless

• 550 million dollars were needed to pay for the destruction

Chile earthquake pics

More on Japan

• The first earthquake to hit Japan was an 9.0 on the Richter scale

• The estimated number of deaths at the moment or little over 10,000

• The quake shifted the earths axis by 25 cm• Japan entire coast moved about 2.4 meters• One of the largest earthquakes recorded in

history

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