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Why do you think there is often only a short amount of time to evacuate an area before an earthquake
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Basically no one knows that an earthquake is coming until it's happening.
People don't have time to evacuate because they don't know that an earthquake is going to take place , in other words the earthquake takes them by surprise.
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