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- Earthquakes!
- Can Feel Like:
- The ground is heaving and shaking
- Can cause serious damage to buildings, highways, homes, and people
- From Long Ago…
- … Or More Recently
- Caused By:
- Earth’s tectonic plates (continents) moving and slipping against each other
- Occurs where two plates meet: a fault
- Why do they move?
- Magma = Lava
- Infamous Earthquake
- San Francisco, 1906
- Estimated 7.8 magnitude on the Richter Scale
- From 1(weakest) to 10 (strongest)
- Extreme Damage
- Same Place, Different Time (1989)
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