There are ways of reducing the effects of earthquakes by, for example, planning, predicting and preparing. Buildings may collapse due to the shaking of the ground. People may die if they are ...
If things are shaking, there’s an earthquake. In reality, though, a lot of things can shake a sensitive instrument that is detecting shaking, so — for example — mechanical sensors will ...
The Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the tsunami and the nuclear accident, turned out to be an unprecedented catastrophe. In comparison with the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that struck ...