EARTHQUAKE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lesson 1- Anatomy of Earthquake

Lesson-2 Earthquake Waves

Lesson 3-Earthquake & Tectonic Plate Boundaries

Lesson 4-Earthquake Prediction

Lesson 5-Earthquake Damage & Hazard Mitigation

ANATOMY OF
EARTHQUAKE
 Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.

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 ANATOMY OF EARTHQUAKE
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.

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EARTHQUAKE
WAVES
 EARTHQUAKE WAVES
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refer to extreme ascatastrophic
Seismic waves events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
Waves that travel either along or near the Earth’s
destruction, and loss of life.
surface.
This energy
These events that travels
occur without through the
human intervention andEarth is recorded
can have severe
by seismographs
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
Two types of Earthquake waves: Body waves and
Surface waves
 EARTHQUAKE WAVES
Body waves
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
Primary waves - the fastest kind of seismic waves and can move
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
through solid rocks destruction,
and fluids.and loss of life.
Secondary waves - slower than P waves and can only move through
solid rocks,
These not
events through
occur withoutany liquid
human medium.and can have severe
intervention
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.

Surface waves
Love waves - the fastest surface wave and moves the ground from
side-to-side producing entirely horizontal motion
Rayleigh waves - It moves the ground side-to-side and up and down
in the same direction that the wave is moving.
 EARTHQUAKE WAVES
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
EARTHQUAKE &
TECTONIC PLATE
BOUNDARIES
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
EARTHQUAKE
PREDICTION
EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
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natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

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These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
feature to predict. difficult to predict
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
 EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
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Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
fluctuate
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and loss of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
•Foreshocks/ small quake
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
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natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
destruction, and of life.

These events occur without human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
 EARTHQUAKE
DAMAGE & HAZARD
MITIGATION
 EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
Earthquake destruction begins with the earth’s violent
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
shaking natural
that can rupture the earth, trigger landslides
processes or forces, resulting in significant damage, and
turn the surface
destruction, of
andthe earth
loss of life. to liquid.
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damaging shaking
events occur of major
without human earthquakes
intervention can be felt
and can have severe
impacts on thehundreds of miles away.
environment, infrastructure, and communities.

The destructive effects of earthquakes are from landslides,

tsunamis, fires, and fault rupture. The violent shaking of
the ground produces the greatest property losses and
personal injuries.
EARTHQUAKE HAZARD MITIGATION
The shaking from a major earthquake can shake and
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
natural processes or forces, resulting in significant damage,
shift almost everything inside your home.
destruction, and loss of life.

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can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
injuries from the damaging 1994 Northridge
earthquake were from heavy furniture and household
objects falling on people.
EARTHQUAKE HAZARD MITIGATION
There are five things you can do right now, to mitigate
Natural disasters refer to extreme and catastrophic events caused by
the effects
natural processes of earthquakes.
or forces, resulting in significant damage,

Don’t put them off. Do them now.

destruction, and loss of life.

1. Securing
These events occur without bookshelves
human intervention and can have severe
impacts on the environment, infrastructure, and communities.
2. Emergency survival kits
3. Securing water heater
4. Protecting your home
5. Family preparedness
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Earthquake hazards mitigation. (n.d.). https://hilo.hawaii.edu/natural-hazards/earthquakes/