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toc =**2.3 Earthquake Hazards and Safety**=

**Vocabulary**

 * liquefaction**: the process of which moist soil becomes mud because of the severe shaking of an earthquake.
 * aftershock**: a smaller earthquake that follows a big earthquake in the same area.
 * tsunamis**: the waves created by an underwater earthquake.
 * base-isolated building**: a building that is designed to lower the power of an earthquake as it reaches the building.

Earthquake 1995

 * In Kobe,Japan
 * 5,000 people died

Earthquake damage

 * seismic waves cause severe damage
 * S waves damage near epicenter

Liquefaction

 * when earthquake turn loose
 * happen where soil wet
 * liquefaction make landslide

Aftershocks

 * earthquake after earthquake
 * same area
 * smaller than before

Tsunamis

 * earthquake make
 * big waves
 * height low
 * half meter