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Shifting rock plates deep in the earth usually cause the severe shaking.

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The results that occur during an earthquake are often ruined homes and collapsed buildings.

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Fires begun by the earthquake damage can also be a serious hazard.

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The very landscape of an area can be changed by a single ravaging earthquake.

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The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused much death and destruction resulting in a disastrous fire.

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Originating in Chile, many countries felt the Chilean earthquake of 1960.

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Having made the list of devastating earthquakes, parts of the Alaskan landscape were changed in 1964.

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Many towns were destroyed and many killed in 2004 devastating Indonesia and multiple Asian countries.

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Working underground, China’s earthquake in 2008 trapped coal miners.