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What is water
During the 1994 Northridge earthquake, places had what flowing down the streets due to fires?
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What is liquefaction
what is an affect by earthquakes which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced.
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What are tidal waves
Tsunamis are popularly––and incorrectly––known as this phrase.
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What is a ground rupture
what happens when the earthquake moves along a fault and actually breaks the Earth's surface?
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What is a landslide
The movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earthdown a slope is known as what?
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What are fires
Land liquefaction and ground ruptures can quickly crack natural gas and water mains, leading to the outbreak of what?
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What is a landslide
During the Alaska earthquake of 1964, the liquefaction of a sandy layer of soft clay beneath Turnagain Heights, a suburb of Anchorage, caused what?
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What is 700 km/hr
Tsunami speeds in the deep ocean have been measured at more than this speed, comparable to some jet planes,
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What is 23
1906 earthquake, fences near Pt. Reyes were offset by as much as how many feet?
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What are rockslides, rockfall, and downhill creep
What is one of the many different types of landslides?
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What is 70,000
Nearly 100,000 people died in Japan's Kanto earthquake in 1923. How many people died due to the outbreak of fire?
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What are earthquakes
Liquefaction has been responsible for tremendous amounts of damage in what?
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What is the Pacific Ocean basin
A big hazard of tsunamis are particularly hazardous in what place?
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What are humans
Ground Rupture cause problems for who?
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What are earthquakes
What are landslides caused by?
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