Earthquake Effects on Coastal Cities and Reduction Tools Report

This report delves into the significant impacts of earthquakes on coastal cities, focusing on the damage caused by geological faults, tsunamis, and seismic activity. It explores the various forms of destruction, including structural damage to buildings, infrastructure failures, and the potential for fires and liquefaction. The report highlights the specific vulnerabilities of coastal communities, where wooden structures are particularly susceptible to complete destruction. Furthermore, it examines the tools and technologies available for mitigating the impact of earthquakes, such as anti-seismic building techniques and vibration reduction devices. The report provides an overview of the challenges and potential solutions in protecting coastal cities from the devastating effects of earthquakes.

Impact of earthquakes on coastal
cities and tools for reducing it

Introduction
• The earthquakes mainly occur when there are geological faults and there
are narrow zones where the movement of the mass of the rock become
possible related to one another.
• The huge earthquakes usually occur on average every year for once.
• These have been responsible for millions of deaths and damage to
property over the centuries.

Impacts of earthquakes
• impacts of the earthquakes consisting of the structural damage to the
monuments, damage to the bridge and the highways, fires development
of failures, tsunami and liquefaction.
• It depends on whether the place is predominantly rural or urban, sparsely
populated or densely populated, underdeveloped or highly developed.

Impact of Earthquake in coastal cities
• The coastal earthquake or Tsunami can cause essential damage to the
coastal communities.
• . The most common type of damage which can happen is the complete
destruction of the wooden houses and flattening of buildings to dust
• . Further, there can be fire breaking out in the debris sand spreading as
the outcome of debris shifting.

Tools for reducing the impact of coastal Earthquakes
• The anti-seismic technology is found to be quite advance for the new
buildings because it is possible to build individual frame which can
withstand the majority of the recorded earthquake
• There are devices such as vibrating barrier for reducing the vibrations of
the structures that are caused by the ground waves of earthquakes

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