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Earthquakes: The Same Effects, but Different Responses
Earthquakes occur as a result of the abrupt release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates a series of waves known as seismic waves. Earth quakes greatly affect people whether they are living in economically disadvantaged countries or in economically developed countries. However, the way each of them responds to the hazard is different.
The tectonic movements in the earth’s crust are the initial causes of earthquakes. These movements bring about forces of tension and pressure, these forces stress up the earth’s crust. As the stresses increase, an imbalance in equilibrium of the rocks which results into breaking of rocks and displaced. The energy accumulated during the process is released giving raise to waves. The waves cause vibration of objects they come across with causing a lot of impact on them. This may include shaking and rapture of the ground. As a result there is damage of infrastructure, landslides, fires due to damage caused to electric and gas lines.
Volcanic eruptions can also cause earthquakes since they are often very violent and can cause vibrations to the earth’s crust, this can result into rupture of geological faults. This is as a result of the movement of lava beneath …show more content…

This is due to the fact that LEDC are economically disadvantaged as compared to the MEDC which tend to have a quicker response and recovery from earthquake damage. Take a look at the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 and compare it with the Kashmir earthquake of 2005, one will realise that the responses were totally different. In Los Angeles almost all schools had been opened in a period of just one week, and in three weeks all schools had been opened. However, in Kashmir it was distinctively a different case, whereby rebuilding and re-supply of schools took much longer than three

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