Disaster caused by the earthquake mainly houses collapsed and fires caused by the earthquake. Victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, a large part is crushed by collapsing buildings. The earthquake fire is not closed because the housing collapse caused by the dumping of gas stove fire or gas pipeline off ...

The earthquake also caused by secondary disasters, but may be greater than the damage caused by vibration.

The main secondary disasters fires, floods, landslides and power outages. Fire by electrical fire or damage caused by the gas pipeline. (1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1923 Kanto earthquake, casualties and losses are mainly from the fire.)

Earthquake directly caused harm to humans and animals have little chance, in addition to the above will bring natural disasters outside, but also bring some "secondary disasters" such as a building due to the severe vibration caused by the collapse of the collapse then Yangji livestock reservoir dam, river bank collapse, flooding caused by floods, or Yin Wasi leakage, gas explosion electrical fire caused a fire, so that the fire fighting work is very difficult, the loss is often difficult to count.

Taiwan situated Eurasian plate and Philippine tectonic plates, earthquakes are frequent, according to statistics, seventy percent of the world's earthquakes occur in this so-called circum-Pacific seismic belt, when the earthquake heard, as a direct result of the earthquake landslides, crack, building bridges dumping. . . Etc., so that indirect fire toppled, gas pipeline rupture causing a fire or tsunami, burst embankments and flooding, are causing significant threat to human life property.

1999 (in 88 years) at 1:47 on September 21, a major earthquake in Taiwan suddenly a tragic century, the death toll 2,735 people and injured 10,002 people, down countless houses (up to October 18 fire department statistics), no homeless, displaced persons initially estimated at 20 million people. The earthquake, believed to after plate movement, prompting "Chelungpu gap" caused by the activity again, the role of the southeast to the northwest by the fault thrust, so tragic disaster mostly concentrated in the winter on the disc to double fault area. The earthquake was a major earthquake in Taiwan for the first time for centuries, but also the residents of Taiwan was hit by one of the great catastrophe; rapid relief in the private and government, and international support, disaster still must heal slowly, therefore, work hard to look at Taiwan seismic history, should enhance people vigilance.The earthquake caused the death of the person, in addition to being pressed by the Department buried the reasons, still in the fire caused by the earthquake as the most terrible, today Taiwan dense underground pipeline, the gas caused by the earthquake rupture of pipes and tubing to be cautious case of prevention .

In the secondary disaster caused by the earthquake in order to fire the most frequent and most terrible. If an earthquake occurs in a residential area of ​​dense population of these may be due to the dumping of the stove, gas oil and gas pipeline rupture and fire caused by electrical short circuit, etc., at this time if the rescue less likely to result in the huge fire, can not pick up. Earlier this year, a fire incident in Japan caused by the Great Hanshin Earthquake amounted to more than 550 times, and several street blocks ashes. The history of the most famous case of earthquake fire to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (M = 8.3) and the 1923 Kanto earthquake (M = 7.9) a.

San Francisco earthquake occurred in the early morning of April 18, although many houses damaged and collapsed after the earthquake; but few casualties, people still glad the disaster is not so bad. At first only sporadic fire, four hours after the earthquake, there is a woman I do not know whose chimney is damaged and a fire started for breakfast, triggered a huge "Hamburg eggs fire." With strong winds quickly spread the fire to boil, only 38 fire engines put out the fire, and water, can not cope with the recess channeling burning fire, people fled to high ground, downtown San Francisco and saw a sea of ​​fire, firefighters attempt to blow up buildings to control the fire, but also failed to fire after the earthquake the first four days straight till the self-extinguishing, almost the entire city of San Francisco burned. Total spread three days, destroyed 500 street blocks and 28,000 houses that 200,000 people homeless, destroyed by fire in San Francisco, is the fact.

Kanto earthquake on September 1 before noon, a time when doing lunch time, cause a fire immediately after the earthquake, coupled with strong winds fanned the fire of hunger swept camel narrow streets, forming a sea of ​​fire, the victims flocked to the river and visiting the sea side, and finally even the people crowded wooden bridge also caught fire, immersed in the river also have head was burned, the fire was extinguished straight till the next morning, but the tokyo market has been burned thirds Second, a total of 300,000 houses burned houses, the death toll of about 140,000 people, about 100,000 people were seriously injured, 2,000,000 homeless and more people, called the century catastrophe!

Earthquake unavoidable natural disasters, disasters they have caused, in addition to the housing collapse, broken bridges, roads collapse, rockfall landslides, the worst case of a fire hazard, a fire caused by the earthquake and death, countless, therefore, in order to reduce casualties and property losses of personnel, usually should be ready earthquake preparation