EARTHQUAKE!

By Dylan

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Table of contents

Pg.2. what is an earthquake
Pg.3. cause effect
Pg.4. historical
Pg.5. fun facts
Pg.6. glossary
Pg.7. All about the author

Is An

What

Did you know earthquakes only last one minute? Rocks under the street break. This may sound normal, but it is quite horrifying. Plates break under the ground and plates break in your house from the shaking.

Also, when rocks break the earth trembles. Do you want to know how an earthquake starts? So when plates break the streets break and people die. A plate is an underground piece that is under the streets. When it breaks the rocks rumble because the plate is stretching.

EARTHQUAKE

Finally, sadly houses and cities are destroyed. The crust of the earth breaks. As you can see earthquakes are scary.

Earthquakes are caused by a rock beneath the ground that snaps in half. That happens when energy is forced into the street. Plates move, stretch,and squeeze. Also the rocks on the edge shift into one and the other. Then the crust of the earth CRACKS. Then EARTHQUAKE when the crust breaks the earth shifts.

Cause

An effect is shaking. Also the land can be chopped in half like the rocks are having a fight. The shaking could be so powerful that the waves could go 1000 miles. That could make a whole city claps. Also the land can be deformed.

Effects

SAN FRANCISCO EARTH QUAKE

It happened in April 18,1906 at 5:12 it lasted 45 seconds.

When

It happened in San Francisco, California

Where

It happened by titonic plates shifted horisontly.

Why

San Francisco earthquake went 248 miles across and 6 miles down. Also brick buildings clasped and 30,000 other buildings clasped. sadly gas crepes threw the streets. Then there was fires from the gas.That cost lives like 500 people and it cost billions of dollars.

What

Fun Facts!

Did you know that we can't hear an earthquake? Also, there are 50 a day around the world. Earthquakes can cause Volcanic eruptions , Tsunamis, avalanches, and landslides.