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= __SHOCKING EARTHQUAKES__ =

Earthquakes happen when plates rub against each other. Plates are under the sea it is like the crust. The plates push and pull different ways. When this happens Earthquake start to cause damage.

[|Info on Earthquakes]

__**What else would a earthquake do?**__ Earthquake are when the plates rub or push away from each other. Earthquakes sometimes cause Major Damage. To citys and people. When Earthquakes happen it is huge problem for that state or countries. When Earthquakes happen there are normally after shocks. The after shocks are not as big as the main Earthquake but the after shocks still do damage. Earthquakes all so cause land slides.

[|What do earthquakes do]

__**Sichuan Earthquake, China 2008**__

The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 it was a huge. A lot of buildings where crack some even fell over. Thousands of people have died in this huge Earthquake. Sichuan is quickly rebuilding the damage. Some people call the huge earthquake "The Great Sichuan Earthquake". This huge Earthquake caused china to spend millions of dollars for repairing damages.

[|Sichuan Article]

The huge Earthquake it was i in 2010 January 12. This was a huge Earthquake thousands of people lost there homes. The earthquake has caused a lot of problems for haiti like sowers being backed up and water pits being busted. So many people died in the Earthquake. The stink of blood is so bad people put tooth past under there noses. Haiti is still recovering from this major earthquake. Haiti is on the ring of fire witch makes it have more earthquakes.
 * __The 2010 Haiti earthquake__**

[|Article on the haiti earthquake]

__**THE BOOK**__

Here is a book I recommend it is called Earthquakes science and society it is by David S. BrumDaugh. [|Earthquakes science and society]

= The Earthquake expert in USGS! = = Mr.Boore! = What Mr.Boore does to give information to families and people before earthquakes.

Mr.Boore went to the university in B.S in 1964. In 1965 Mr.Boore went to Stanford university. In the 70's, he went to the Massachusetts Institute of technology. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering; member of the U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects; seismic consultant to the Department of Energy's Tank Seismic Experts Panel; seismic consultant to the Advanced Light Water Reactor Equipment Seismic Qualification Panel; member of panel of seismic experts for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of the proposed yucca Mountain waste repository; member of review panel, Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Ground Motion Guidelines project; member of the Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee; seismic expert for various Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory studies of probabilistic seismic hazard analyses of nuclear power plant sites; member of the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America, Associate Editor from 1975-1984 and Editor from 1975-1984; International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, Commission on Strong Motion Seismology, Chairman 1977-1983, member 1983-1992; and member of the Seismological Society of America and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

Here is a realy cool video of a earthquake! media type="custom" key="8289184" width="130" height="130"

The time of St.Louis

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