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For our topic, we chose the disaster Earthquakes. We believe that Earthquakes are an important disaster because it is very common in our world today. Earthquakes can take many lives with it every time it impacts our society. Earthquakes will destroy homes and offices. This is because weather stations can't predict when an Earthquake will occur. They have machines that tell them how big the Earthquake is, but not when it is coming. "Why," you might ask, "are Earthquakes important to prevent?" Well, for many reasons. For example, as many as 1,000-100,000 people die each year from Earthquakes. They die because of the buildings collapsing on top of them. However, this death toll also includes after-shocks, which are miniature Earthquakes after the real Earthquakes, and other after effects like Tsunamis and Landslides, and avalanches. Yet, more people die from the initial Earthquake than the possible Tsunami or Landslide.