How do earthquakes affect the environment and people?
Earthquakes are part of the environment. They are a result of forces within the earth that push and pull tectonic plates across the earth’s surface (though some earthquakes are caused by magma moving underground, which ultimately also comes from those same tectonic forces) They have little impact on the environment other than slowly moving continent’s across the surface of the earth which does affect the climate, but this process takes millions of years. They affect humans mainly causing destruction of human built structures, and forcing people to find better ways of building earthquake-proof structures.
