Personal Response 5: Earthquakes

Question:


1. What are the causes of earthquake?
2. What can people do when there is an earthquake?


3. Do you think scientists can detect an earthquake? If so, how do they do it?


4. Where have earthquakes occurred?


5. Why do these countries have earthquakes?


6. Do you think there will be an earthquake in Singapore? Why?


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Earthquake is cause because two of the earth suddenly slip past on each other.Other people caught in the earthquake can :



Hide away from heavy objects

Stay away from building and trees

Stay away from Underground in case it fall



scientists can detect earthquake by using a machine called Seismograms.

Earthquake are at china , asia and many others.

These country have earthquake because of the shifting masses of rock miles below the surface.

Singapore do not have earthquake itself. Sometime, Singapore have earthquake because of other countries. The earthquake is very small