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How do scientists design safer buildings for people to live and work in areas that the earthquakes can be less scary?
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Who is commonly affected by earthquakes?
People who live in buildings.
Why do earthquakes bother people?
Because they knock buildings down. People are bothered when buildings fall onto them.
How are earthquakes most harmful to people?
they destroy buildings which in turns harm people
What are after effects of earthquakes?
Usually buildings get destroyed, and people get injured to killed.
What projects are civil engineers doing to keep us safe from earthquakes?
Building buildings with stronger structures, but also with flexibility, so that they will hold up in earthquakes. Because earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do.
How can people get hurt by earthquakes?
Most commonly by man made structures such as buildings collapsing on people.
How can scientists prevent people from earthquakes?
At this point, scientists don't prevent earthquakes. But their predictions may help minimize an earthquake's damaging and destructive effects. Advance warning may allow people to make their properties more earthquake resistant and may let appropriate organizations have emergency preparedness measures in place.
How do we know that earthquakes exist?
If you have ever felt an earthquake you will know they exist. Billions of people have felt earthquakes and many millions of people have been killed by earthquakes. Buildings collapse in many earthquakes. Earthquakes leave plenty of evidence and witnesses behind them that they happened.
How do earthquakes cause chaos?
They damage and destroy buildings and structures which land on people and trap them.
How can people control the damage caused by earthquakes?
By constructing buildings and structures that are earthquake resistant.
Something people design for a living?
Clothes, Buildings, Furniture
Why many people are left homeless with earthquakes?
Earthquakes destroy houses and buildings. Therefore many victims live in tents until their houses are rebuilt.
