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Normally, during an earthquake most deaths occur when people get buried under collapsing buildings. Assuming as in your question, a person was away from anything that could fall on them and didn't fall into a ravine and didn't get swallowed in a newly formed quicksand, it should be possible to survive a mag 9 event.
The biggest danger in this situation will ...
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Intra-plate volcanism occurs when rifting of the plate occurs. But you don't necessarily need a hotspot (or rather a mantle plume) to trigger a rifting process. There are two types of rifting:
Active rifting, which indeed implies the rise of a mantle plume under the lithosphere. This yields to the bulging of the lithosphere, then to its extension. In such ...
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Yes, a man in the open sitting on grass could be killed by a magnitude 8 or 9 earthquake, but in the circumstances you describe it would be very unlikely. Not all large earthquakes produce huge rifts on land, but if you were unlucky enough to have one open up beneath you then the chances are you would fall into it. Another danger would be liquefaction. In ...
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