This depends on the size of the earthquake and the observer's distance from it, because earthquake waves spread out as they travel whilst becoming weaker.
A magnitude 6 earthquake several hundred kilometres away can be often be felt for 30–40 seconds. The actual duration of slip on the earthquake fault is usually quite brief — just a few seconds for a magnitude 6 for example. This is because the fault rupture spreads very quickly, so the whole process of faulting is over very quickly.
During the very largest earthquakes, fault rupture can continue for up to 5 minutes as the rupture spreads over a length of say 1000km. For these earthquakes very high levels of aftershocks mean that continuous ground shaking can be felt for some hours.
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All buildings at manila will be broken The road is gonna be broken in to pieces The mountains will make an landslide The volcano will erupt The sea will form an big tsunami People will start going to an safe place Animals that are affected will die if they aren’t with their owners And more importantly when there is an earthquake take shelter Hope it helps
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This depends on the size of the earthquake and the observer's distance from it, because earthquake waves spread out as they travel whilst becoming weaker.
A magnitude 6 earthquake several hundred kilometres away can be often be felt for 30–40 seconds. The actual duration of slip on the earthquake fault is usually quite brief — just a few seconds for a magnitude 6 for example. This is because the fault rupture spreads very quickly, so the whole process of faulting is over very quickly.
During the very largest earthquakes, fault rupture can continue for up to 5 minutes as the rupture spreads over a length of say 1000km. For these earthquakes very high levels of aftershocks mean that continuous ground shaking can be felt for some hours.
The road is gonna be broken in to pieces
The mountains will make an landslide
The volcano will erupt
The sea will form an big tsunami
People will start going to an safe place
Animals that are affected will die if they aren’t with their owners
And more importantly when there is an earthquake take shelter
Hope it helps