The effects from earthquakes include ground shaking, surface faulting, ground failure, and less commonly, tsunamis.

Earthquakes can cause electricity poles to fall and live wires to become exposed or to start fires. Ruptured gas lines and spillage of flammable substances.

Some of the common impacts of earthquakes include structural damage to buildings, fires, damage to bridges and highways, initiation of slope failures, ...

An earthquake can collapse bridges, cause both landslides and avalanches, and damage roads making them impassable. This can easily isolate communities within ...

The primary effects of earthquakes are ground shaking, ground rupture, landslides, tsunamis, and liquefaction. Fires are probably the single most important ...

Earthquake environmental effects are the effects caused by an earthquake, including surface faulting, tsunamis, soil liquefactions, ground resonance, ...

A simple example common in many earthquakes are landslides. The shaking causes regions of the rock and soil to slide downhill. The same material would ...

The difference between damage and devastation depends not only on the magnitude of the earthquake, but also on local geology and building techniques.

On top of this, there is damage to infrastructure and losses due to other effects of earthquakes such as landslides, fires or business interruptions.