If there was big a earth quake and i stood in the middle of a field would it be safe?

Question

i want accurate answers

just incase

and if there ways a earth quake were should i go to be safe?

what causes earth quaks?

i know its something about the tectonic plates stuff but still a question what happens?

Answer 1

yes you would be safe, but to be extra safe, if i were you i would lie down.

Answer 2

Dat a good question never thought of that. Somebody plz answer the question.

Answer 3

Yes, you would be. The vast majority of earthquake injuries are caused by collapsing buildings. As long as you were away from infrastructure, buildings, towers, etc., chances are good that you would be fine. Of course, if you happen to be in a field near a cliff with loose rocks, or if a tree is physically uprooted, or if a mudslide occurs, or if you are so unlucky as to be at the spot where a fault intersects the surface of the earth, then you can still be hurt. Sometimes rock slides might dam rivers or lakes, and cause rapid flooding. And fires are always a big risk, though usually only in buildings in cities. While it is possible that you could be hurt in a field, the chances are pretty slim. You are definitely far safer than you would be in a typical building not designed to withstand earthquakes.

If there is an earthquake, the best thing to do is to get under a really sturdy piece of furniture or table, or to stand in a stout doorway away from any potential falling objects.

Earthquakes are caused by faults, zones in the earth where large slabs of the earth's crust slide past each other. These pieces of earth are so rigid that they don't slide smoothly, but instead build up a lot of pressure like a squeezed spring before suddenly overcoming the forces holding them in place and moving so rapidly as to create a rebound of force.

Answer 4

PROTECTION DURING EARTHQUAKES

The following are some of the important precaution to be observed to save our life during an earthquake. Even though we do not have fool proof system to fore warn earthquakes some of the changes in nature or in the behaviors of animals and birds may help to decide the situations.

Before an earthquake.

Have a battery powered radio, flash light, and first aid kids in your house ,

Make sure every one knows where they are kept ,

Lean first aid; teach how to stop electric main and gas supply ,

Don’t keep heavy objects in high shelves ,

Fasten heavy appliances to the floor, and anchor heavy furniture to the walls ,

Plan for your family for reuniting after an earthquake if anybody separated ,

Urge your school teachers to discuss earthquake safety in the class rooms, and ask them to conduct drills ,

Find out your office has an emergency plan, know your responsibility at your works during an emergency .

During an earthquake.

Stay calm if you are indoors, stay out if you are out of buildings. Many injuries occur as people enter or leave the buildings.

If you are indoors , stand against the a wall near the center of the building, or get under a sturdy table  keep some cushion on your head, Stay away from windows and outside doors, if you are in a high rise building stand against a support column.

If you are in outdoor  stay in the open place , keep away from over head electric wires. and bridges,

Don’t use open flames, if you are in a moving vehicle stop away from over bridges and stay inside the vehicle still earthquake stops.

After an earthquake.

Check yourself and nearby people for injury, provide first aid,

Check electric and gas connection,

Turn on your radio or T.V for emergency instructions, reduce the use of phone lines it may be required for conveying some important messages.

Stay out of damaged buildings,

Wear chapels and gloves to protect against shattered glass and debris.

Stay away from beaches and water front areas where Tsunami could strike, even long after the shaking has stopped.

The pressure accumulated at the boundary of tectonic plates suddenly releases it energy and causes  create earthquakes.

Answer 5

As long as there are no power lines above you, and no trees near enough to fall on you, AND you were not standing directly on the fault line, yes, that would be THE safest place to be.   If you are indoors, the best place to duck is next to a bed, desk, or other sturdy object.  It is now found that when the ceiling falls, the desk, bed, etc. get crushed, but they leave a triangle pocket next to them where it is the best place to be to survive.  If you are under them, you will be crushed along with the desk, bed, etc.  Doorways are known to collapse, so that is not a good place.  Nearer the outside walls is better, as long as you are not next to a window, so rescuers can reach you quicker than if you were buried in the middle of the building.  I have been living with the muthas for well over 50 years now.  I hope this helps.

Answer 6

Well, if you lived in the city with lots of high rise buildings and such, it'd probably be safer standing in an open field where you will be less likely to be squashed by the falling buildings or buried under the rubble. However if you live in a house, not a 20 storey building, it is recommended that you hide under your bed, table or even door to shelter you from falling objects, so even if your house falls down, there won't be much to dig through to find you.

Earthquakes occur mostly around plate edges, so if you live on/near one, you most likely would have already experienced small tremors once in a while. When two plates collide with each other, it will cause earthquakes.

Answer 7

Earthquakes are the vibrations of techtonic plates as they move against each other.  these waves come in two catagories.

the first kind are primary waves(p-waves) which are compression waves and move forward and back. these waves move much faster than the secondary waves and so they are felt first. they usually don't cause much damage and often only equiptment and animals are aware of them because their movement is parallel to the ground.

secondary waves are called shear waves and move up, down, left, right. these waves cause the damage. they break up building foundations and glass sometimes they open fissures in the ground.

If you were standing in a field you would be safer than if you were standing in a city street where debris could fall on you,  but if you happen to be standing in the WRONG field.  your in for a ride.

if you were to be standing over san andreas when it let fly it would probably only knock you down and leave some bruises and a whopper of a tale to tell.

but there are regions along alaska and canada where a major fault under the pacific ocean lets fly about every so often, (it's still under study how frequent but it's not tripped since 1780)  and drops the land mass 4 feet FLOODING it with seawater and washing away EVERYTHING away in sunamis that are felt in JAPAN.  so if you stood there and happened to have a front row seat, you'd find yourself halfway to japan. so REALLY not safe.

So in short. it depends on which field your standing in. .......

Answer 8

You would be safe as long as you weren't standing on the fault line or in an area of soil that liquefied from the quake.  The chances of that are small, so in a field would probably be the safest place.

Earthquakes are caused by faults, where the tectonic plates are against one another.  Since the plates are moving slowly, pressure builds up between these edges.  When there has been sufficient movement of the plates to build up enough pressure, they break loose and shift, causing an Earthquake.

There are three main plate tectonic environments: extensional, transform, and compressional. Plate boundaries in different localities are subject to different inter-plate stresses, producing these three types of earthquakes. Each type has its own special hazards.

At spreading ridges, or similar extensional boundaries, earthquakes are shallow, aligned strictly along the axis of spreading, and show an extensional mechanism. Earthquakes in extensional environments tend to be smaller than magnitude 8. (Click here for an explanation of earthquake magnitude).

At transforms, earthquakes are shallow, running as deep as 25 km; mechanisms indicate strike-slip motion. Transforms tend to have earthquakes smaller than magnitude 8.5.

The San Andreas fault in California is a nearby example of a transform, separating the Pacific from the North American plate. At transforms the plates mostly slide past each other laterally, producing less sinking or lifing of the ground than extensional or compressional environments. The yellow dots below locate earthquakes along strands of this fault system in the San Francisco Bay area.

At compressional boundaries, earthquakes are found in several settings ranging from the very near surface to several hundred kilometers depth, since the coldness of the subducting plate permits brittle failure down to as much as 700 km. Compressional boundaries host Earth's largest quakes, with some events on subduction zones in Alaska and Chile having exceeded magnitude 9.

This oblique orbital view looking east over Indonesia shows the clouded tops of the chain of large volcanoes. The topography below shows the Indian plate, streaked by hotspot traces and healed transforms, subducting at the Javan Trench.

Sometimes continental sections of plates collide; both are too light for subduction to occur.

Nevada has a complex plate-tectonic environment, dominated by a combination of extensional and transform motions. The Great Basin shares some features with the great Tibetan and Anatolian plateaus. All three have large areas of high elevation, and show varying amounts of rifting and extension distributed across the regions. This is unlike oceanic spreading centers, where rifting is concentrated narrowly along the plate boundary. The numerous north-south mountain ranges that dominate the landscape from Reno to Salt Lake City are the consequence of substantial east-west extension, in which the total extension may be as much as a factor of two over the past 20 million years.

The extension seems to be most active at the eastern and western margins of the region, i.e. the mountain fronts running near Salt Lake City and Reno. The western Great Basin also has a significant component of shearing motion superimposed on this rifting. This is part of the Pacific - North America plate motion. The total motion is about 5 cm/year. Of this, about 4 cm/yr takes place on the San Andreas fault system near the California coast, and the remainder, about 1 cm/year, occurs east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in a zone geologists know as the Walker Lane.

As a result, Nevada hosts hundreds of active extensional faults, and several significant transform fault zones as well. While not as actively or rapidly deforming as the plate boundary in California, Nevada has earthquakes over much larger areas. While some regions in California, such as the western Sierra Nevada, appear to be isolated from earthquake activity, earthquakes have occurred everywhere in Nevada.

Liquefaction is not a type of ground failure; it is a physical process

that takes place during some earthquakes that may lead to ground failure. As a consequence of liquefaction, clay-free soil deposits, primarily sands and silts, temporarily lose strength and behave as viscous fluids rather than as solids. Liquefaction takes place when seismic shear waves pass through a saturated granular soil layer, distort its granular structure, and cause some of the void spaces to collapse. Disruptions to the soil generated by these collapses cause transfer of the ground-shaking load from grain-to-grain contacts in the soil layer to the pore water. This transfer of load increases pressure in the pore water, either causing drainage to occur or, if drainage is restricted, a sudden buildup of pore-water pressure. When the pore-water pressure rises to about the pressure caused by the weight of the column of soil, the granular soil layer behaves like a fluid rather than like a solid for a short period. In this condition, deformations can occur easily.

Earthquake Effects

Ground shaking, surface faulting, landslides, Tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, soil liquefaction

Liquefaction is restricted to certain geologic and hydrologic

environments, mainly areas where sands and silts were deposited in the last 10,000 years and where ground water is within 30 feet of the surface. Generally, the younger and looser the sediment and the higher the water table, the more susceptible a soil is to liquefaction.

Liquefaction causes three types of ground failure: lateral spreads, flow failures, and loss of bearing strength. In addition, liquefaction

enhances ground settlement and sometimes generates sand boils (fountains of water and sediment emanating from the pressurized liquefied zone). Sand boils can cause local flooding and the deposition or accumulation of silt.

Answer 9

no