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 Earthquakes in Shanghai  By Anette and Nina **Shanghai had 3 major earthquakes and small ones every day. To be safe if an earthquake happens. People in Shanghai need to have a safety packet in their car or at home, but not everyone has one. What they need in the safety packet is lots of water and some food all these things should be in canes. They also need one pair of extra shoes for everyone in the family. They also should have a pair of shoes next to your bed in case an earthquake happens at night. They also need plastic bags by the heel of the bed so the bed will not swing around if an earthquake happens at night. People in Shanghai may also have pets and the pets mostly need lots of water some food and a blanket. All these safety things people in Shanghai should be ready for but some people are not. By one of the earthquakes in Shanghai it killed 268 people but they are not sure because 268 people are the ones they found but for sure there are more people. The earthquake was 6.8**. History of Shanghai and Their Earthquakes ** Another great earthquake took place in 2003, measured to be a 6.8 quake. Again not in Shanghai exactly but in Xingjian south of Shanghai. 268 have been found dead, and many injured. On may 12, 2008 a 7.5 earthquake took place. One of the most harmful ever, the Jinmao tower fell (the Jinmao tower was the tallest building in china.)Many other skyscrapers and tall buildings fell too. Many people died and were badly hurt. Shanghai has small quakes every day, even though many of them are not felt. They can be from as small as 2.0 to 8.0.
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 * We are focusing on a big city in China, witch name is Shanghai. Shanghai has really many earthquakes because of the city’s location close to a point where two plates meat. Even though not call of these earthquakes have taken place in Shanghai. When they have a major earthquake near Shanghai, some people in the southern Beijing (the biggest city in China) sometimes can feel the shake! **
 * In 1976 Sichuan had a 7.8 earthquake that also hit Shanghai very awful. Many tall and high buildings in Shanghai collapsed, because in that time the government did not pay that much attention to the city and the danger that earthquakes made. No one knows how many people died. Some places you can still find dead skeleton from that time!

How People Get Affected From the Earthquakes As you probably know Shanghai is a very big city, were lot's of people come on vacation. These people hwo come from places where they are not used to earthquakes get pretty scared when big quakes happen. Some people think they will die, and so they do not trust them self and then they die. But people who are used to earthquakes and have been in some major ones do not worry as much. They do not give up the hope about them self, and that gives them a chance to maybe live longer than the ones who are not used to big earthquakes. Some people do not want to leave their hurt or dead family along so they run into the ruins trying to find them. Others have been calling for help under the ruins and were trying to get out, while these things might not have been the most help full. ** How a Earthquake Is Caused An earthquake mostly takes place at a point where to plates meat, there are 15 plates in the world. A plate can also be known as a tectonic plate, the plates are different places all around the world. It is like the places where the world is put together. You can usually not see where a plate ends and where a new plate starts. The places where major earth quakes usually happens are near the end of a tectonic plate. An earthquake only lasts for 5 seconds or so. You will properly first have known after that there was an earthquake, because buildings will still be shaking. An earthquake can do different things. It can leave a whole in the ground or make a mountain or mountains. If you know that you are near a end of a plate and you can see mountains, the mountains can maybe have been formed by a earthquake.

What They Do To Protect Themselves ** 22% of the tall buildings in Shanghai have failed a earthquake test, 48% are tested to be too dangerous to be build. These test results are really bad, for a rich city as Shanghai. The ones who failed before they were build will not get promesion to be built. But the once who are already built will be gotten away. Every house or skyscraper has a ground floor. Many sky scrapers who usually have lots of people in them, would rather have a bunker under the ground than ground floor. Because a bunker has room for more people than a ground floor. Every school has to have some kind of practice. Many schools practice every month, while some small schools only have every two hours. There are special days where every school in shanghai has to practice. It is not only schools that practice people also practice at home. The things the city and individuals are really good things to do to prepare them self for earthquakes. ** www.alernet.org www.shanghaiist.com www,english.peopdaily.com.cn 72hours.org/index.html**
 * After the big disaster in 2008 the government has though a little bit about how they can protect the houses and buildings, and also how to protect people so they do not die. Here are some things they have come up with, some have been here before 2008 too.
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