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Question
How do earthquakes affect the landscape?
Solution
Earthquakes cause rise and fall of landmasses, create fault scarps, offset streams, and other land features and cause landslides. Earthquakes waves also destroy houses and man-made structures, buckle and twist the railway lines electric and telegraph lines, etc.
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