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Question
How do earthquakes affect the landscape?
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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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