Damage to buildings and structures. For example, houses collapsed, bridges were broken, dams were cracked, and tracks were deformed.

Ground damage. Such as ground cracks, collapse, water sandblasting, etc.

Destroy natural objects such as mountains. Such as landslides and landslides.

Huge waves caused by tsunami and submarine earthquake washed up on the coast, causing damage to coastal areas.

In addition, in some major earthquakes, there is also the phenomenon that the earth's light burns people and animals.

After the direct disaster of the earthquake, it will lead to secondary disasters. Sometimes, the casualties and losses caused by secondary disasters are greater than those caused by direct disasters. During the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan 1932, only 10000 houses collapsed directly due to the earthquake, but 700,000 houses were destroyed by fire in the earthquake.

Secondary disasters caused by earthquakes mainly include:

Fire caused by fire source out of control after earthquake;

Floods are caused by dam breaches or landslides blocking rivers;

Toxic gas leakage caused by the destruction of buildings or devices;

Plague was caused by severe damage to the living environment after the earthquake.