GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ground Shaking & Structural Failure Most earthquake damage results from the seismic waves passing beneath buildings, roads, and other structures.

Detailed explanation-2: -Earthquakes can result in the ground shaking, soil liquefaction, landslides, fissures, avalanches, fires and tsunamis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ground shaking from earthquakes can cause buildings and bridges to collapse; disrupt gas, electricity, and telephone services; and sometimes trigger landslides, avalanches, flash floods, fires, and tsunami.

Detailed explanation-4: -earthquake, any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Seismic waves are produced when some form of energy stored in Earth’s crust is suddenly released, usually when masses of rock straining against one another suddenly fracture and “slip.”