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What are the effects of an earthquake

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it depends on the severity, but ill focus on a 5.0 earthquake on the richer side. there is a little bit of damage to buildings and roads along with miner casualties. there are approximately 500 of these earthquakes each year.

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The effects of earthquakes include ground shaking, surface faults, ground faults, and, less commonly, tsunamis.

Step-by-step explanation:

Earthquakes are caused by sudden tectonic movements in the earth's crust. The main cause is that when the tectonic plates, one slides over the other, they cause the collision of the orogeny (formation of mountains), earthquakes

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