Tag: Geography

The earthquake happened because the continental plate and the oceanic plate collided, making the oceanic plate go beneath, when it snapped, that caused the earthquake. This also caused the tsunami, which had an effect on New Zealand.

This devastating Earthquake happened just recently, it was a strong magnitude of 7.5. The tragedy may have been a whopping size in magnitude, it actually didn’t kill a lot of people (only 2 people died).

The effects of this earthquake were that New Zealand’s citizens had to move quickly to other places because their homes weren’t fit for anyone to live in.

This monster went all over New Zealand and shook many houses. Many streets were practically split in half due to the chaos this terror of an earthquake brought to this harmless town. It just got worst every 5 minutes. It was only early on Monday when this happened. Even a Tsunami  came into view that was 15 meters deep and 100 meters back from the coast. It is strange that only 2 people died. This is because New Zealand is a very rich country, so they had enough to build earthquake proof buildings.

It may have been a 7.5, but scientists who studied this, pushed it up to a 7.8. This is a picture from the Earthquake, food smashed on the floor, cartons leak as they get stomped on by panicked citizens.

Many of these earthquakes are normally just short and they would go away, but this one kept on going on and on. It was getting worse every minute or so.

This devastating earthquake only killed 2 people, but it had a giant effect on the whole of New Zealand. It will stay as the most tragic thing that has ever happened in the whole of the country’s history.

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Afghanistan suffered an unbelievable 4.2m earthquake that killed thousands of people, left hundreds of homes destroyed and lots injured. “It is the worst thing that has ever happened in the whole of Afghanistan, we don’t have enough money to pay for the damage.”

Sky news: What happened exactly when the quake struck?

Eye witness: We were all sleeping, it hit very fast and many were killed 1 minute into the earthquake

Sky news: What happened to the school girls, how many did you rescue?

Eye witness: We rescued only one, everyone else was dead.

Afghanistan suffered an unbelievable 4.2m earthquake that killed thousands of people, left hundreds of homes destroyed and lots injured. “It is the worst thing that has ever happened in the whole of Afghanistan, we don’t have enough money to pay for the damage.”

This earthquake was a whopping 4.2 magnitude. It may have been small, but even the smallest of earthquakes can cause a lot of damage. The country was hit on October 17th in the morning. Mastuj, a place in Pakistan, was only 154km away, along with two other cities: Termez and Kundus.

This earthquake was a whopping 4.2 magnitude. It may have been small, but even the smallest of earthquakes can cause a lot of damage. The country was hit on October 17th in the morning. Mastuj, a place in Pakistan, was only 154km away, along with two other cities: Termez and Kundus.

This monster of an earthquake was mainly centered in the mountains, in the Hindu Kush region. 767km (45 miles) South of Faizband. The death rate was set to rise as the badly affected places in the country. It is very remote and all sources of communication had been cut off. A school in the country had almost all the girls in the school dead when they were trying to get out. The aftershocks went as far as India and Tajikistan.