There are many different kinds of natural disasters that occur all around the world. One of the many different kinds of natural disasters that occur are earthquakes. According to Wikipedia, "Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary events that they trigger, such as building collapse, fires, tsunamis and volcanoes, that are actually the human disaster" (Wikipedia 2.1.2) Earthquakes occur when the tectonic plates move into either a strike-slip or Thrust which causes the earth to shake. The most activity in volcanoes are in the West and East of the United States and Hawaii.
Bibliography:
-Natural Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster
-Earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake#Earthquake_fault_types
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