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Using your own knowledge. Examine the primary and secondary effects of an earthquake or volcanic eruption that you have studied.

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The primary effects of earthquakes are caused by the surface rupture along the fault and by the ground shaking via the earthquake energy release. The secondary effects are the effects that occur directly as a result of this earthquake shaking and energy release, i.e., the onset of a tsunami wave, or a landslide.

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