A
hotel destroyed by an earthquake.
Earthquakes
happen frequently in Japan, but they can happen almost anywhere, anytime.In
the United States, Hawaii and California are the center of many earthquakes.
Some major earthquakes that happened in the past century are:
Hanshin-Awaji, Japan 1995
Izmit, Tukey 1999
Loma Prieta, California 1989
San Francisco, California 1906.