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Restless earth- Earhquakes
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- 1What is an earthquake?The shaking of the ground causes by movement in the rocks below the surface
- 2Where do the majority of Earthquakes occur?Along plate boundaries
- 3As rocks settle into their new positions, there will be lots of smaller earthquakes after the big one called?...After shocks
- 4What is the highest number on the Richter scale?9
- 5What machine is an earthquake measured by?Seismometers
- 6What city in Japan did an earthquake take place there in 1995?Kobe
- 7How many people were killed in the Kobe earthquake?Around 300,000
- 8How can the danger of an earthquake be reduced? What is put in place?Large rubber shock absorbers are built in the foundations of a building and it absorbs earth tremors.
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- GCSE Physical Geography Karteikarten am Restless earth- Earhquakes, erstellt von taylor2em am 03/06/2013.
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