Earthquakes
By:Lena Cox
How earthquakes are formed
Earthquakes are formed when two tectonic plates scrape ,bump,or drag along another Tectonic plate.Tectonic plates are two giant slabs of rocks and that's a lager part of the earths crust. When the tectonic plates move or push that causes the earth crust to move up on land or water.And here is a picture of two tectonic plates moveing.
Where Earthquakes happen
Damage in Santa Rosa.
The damage in this picture was caused by shaking damage. The Santa Rosa city hall fell in April 1906 in San Francisco and the Richter scale get up to 7.9.
Road damage.
Even the roads where damaged.The bridge collapsed and lots of cars and people get stuck many people Could not survive mostly at the bottom of the bridge.
House damage
Lots of people's homes where damaged some of them could not even get in their houses.People who lived right on a fault line where all of the earthquakes happen have to reconstruct their homes like ever year or so.
Damages that earthquakes cause
Earthquakes can cause some of the most severe damages in the world.In the pictures above they are showing damages that happened in Santa Rosa.The earthquakes caused many people to lose homes family and each another.Reconstruction was also important after earthquakes it will take a long time you better get started on it fast.
How to measure earthquakes.
How do people measure earthquakes?People measure earthquakes with a Richter scale that measures the how strong or weak a earthquake is.Seismology are people who study earthquakes so I think they are the people who measure the earthquakes.A Richter scale goes up to 1.0-9.5 is the highest that it has get up to so far.
How to reduce the impact on humans.
There are lots of ways to be safe in a earthquake.One way is always have a first aid kit so you can get it very fast and go.You should always have a sturdy thing to hold on or go under because if something falls you will be safe so you do not get hit.