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EarthquakeInfo.com By:Cameron & Bridget

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An earthquake is when two plate techtonics rub together to make them vibrate. Sooooo, that causes buildings to fall and cars to get crushed and people to get hurt. Earthquakes usally happen on the ring of fire. earthquakes also occur on fault zones. media type="custom" key="8124288" width="220" height="220" More Science

Earthquakes are VERY dangerous! Thousands of people have died because of them! It's Horrible
 * Historical Event **
 * In Chile, May 22nd 1969, There was an earthquake with the magnitude 9.5!! It affected Alaska, The Philippines, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand and Australia!! Can you believe it did that much damage?!?! It killed 1,655 people, injured 3,000 and left 2,000,000 homeless! **
 * Current event **

//**Some Dos-&-Don'ts -- **//
 * In Haiti near a town called Leogane, an earthquake happened in 2010 with a magnitude of 7.0. It happened at 4:53 (a.m. or p.m. unknown) (their time) on Tuesday January 12th. It affected a lot of people leaving them homeless. If you remember last year a lot of schools helped haiti recover. **
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 * When an earthquake is coming, usually, you would want to find safety, drop cover and hold on to something secure. You should have a battery powered radio, a flash light, batteries, and a first aid kit in a box in your safe place. --- **
 * Some don'ts are.. Don't be close to glass during the event, don't go outside and don't go near windows. **


 * How to prepare? **


 * Create a first aid kit make sure it has band'aids, bandages, medicine, etc. You should also put together a survival kit. It should have a tent, food, water, bathroom suplies (toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, soap, towel etc..) **


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 * <span style="color: #d86cf9; font-family: monotype corsiva,Courier,monospace; font-size: 200%;">The book Nook **

<span style="color: #d86cf9; font-family: monotype corsiva,Courier,monospace; font-size: 200%;"> //__<span style="color: #008080; font-family: kristen itc,Monaco,monospace; font-size: 200%;">Haiti Earthquake photo __//
 * <span style="color: #4b6006; font-family: edwardian script itc,serif; font-size: 200%;">( Childrens books ) **
 * <span style="color: #4b6006; font-family: edwardian script itc,serif; font-size: 200%;">1 ****<span style="color: #4b6006; font-family: edwardian script itc,serif; font-size: 200%;">.Earthquake in the Early Morning (Magic Tree House #24) (A Stepping Stone Book. It is a great story and it is also has a lot of good information about earthquakes) **
 * <span style="color: #d86cf9; font-family: monotype corsiva,Courier,monospace; font-size: 200%;">( Adult Novels ) **
 * <span style="color: #d86cf9; font-family: monotype corsiva,Courier,monospace; font-size: 200%;">2. Earthquakes, by: Bruce Bolt ****<span style="color: #d86cf9; font-family: monotype corsiva,Courier,monospace; font-size: 200%;">In this earthquake novel- they explain what happens behind all of the dust and shattered buildings and you **
 * <span style="color: #d86cf9; font-family: monotype corsiva,Courier,monospace; font-size: 200%;">can see the whole process in an earthquake. **

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: monotype corsiva,serif; font-size: 200%;">[] //__**<span style="color: #b218f2; font-family: juice itc,'Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 200%;">This is a link that Mr. Dave Murray ( St. Louis weather man ) emailed me-- **__// //__**<span style="color: #b218f2; font-family: juice itc,'Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 200%;">Check it out!! **__//

<span style="color: #ff009a; font-family: KRISTEN ITC,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Mr. Dave Murray Lives here in St. Louis. He is a weather man, that we ( Bridget and Cameron ) chose to email about our earthquake wiki! He helped us a lot on it and up above this post is a link that we would like you to visit to find more about earthquakes if you would like! Thank you all so much for visiting our website and I hope you liked it a lot. We hope it gave you a lot of ideas on how to be prepared. <span style="color: #ff009a; font-family: kristen itc,'Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 200%;">**﻿**

-- Bridget & Cameron--



Cameron (left) Bridget (right)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Thanks to the sites that were used-- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">nationalgeographic.com, infoplease.com, answers.yahoo.com, ndma.gov.in and wikipedia.com