Why does my ground feel shaking?

An earthquake generates seismic waves that pass through the ground. As those waves pass near or underneath your house, it can move from side to side and up and down. The shaking your house experiences depends on how far it is from the fault and the soil under and around it.



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Hence, staying in top floor of a high-rise building is practically safer than to be in the open street among the stampede of fear-stricken people. Tall buildings offer maximum security from an earthquake jolt if the areas do not fall in the epicenter of extremely powerful earthquake.

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