EARTH SCIENCE
NATURAL HAZARDS
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Question
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Earthquakes and weather are not related.
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Earthquakes cannot happen in cold weather.
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Atmospheric conditions cause both earthquakes and weather.
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The movement of tectonic plates causes both earthquakes and weather.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The weather has been warmer than usual in a town in California. A student wants to know if warmer weather means that an earthquake is more likely to happen. Which statement about earthquakes and weather is true? Earthquakes and weather are not related.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ground-shaking from earthquakes can cause buildings or bridges to collapse, disrupt utility services and trigger events such as avalanches, fires, floods, landslides and tsunamis.
Detailed explanation-3: -The global increase in intense floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves has a likely and ominous link to climate change.
Detailed explanation-4: -Earthquakes are caused due to sudden tectonic movements in the earth’s crust. When the tectonic plates slide over one another, there is a cause of orogeny which results in earthquakes and volcanoes. These disturbances cause vibrations that spread in all directions.
Detailed explanation-5: -An earthquake is the shifting of the Earth’s plates, which results in a sudden shaking of the ground that can last for a few seconds to a few minutes. Within seconds, mild initial shaking can strengthen and become violent. Earthquakes happen without warning and can happen at any time of year.