Predicate: earthquake

Roleset id: earthquake.01 , natural disaster: earthquake, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

earthquake.01: EARTHQUAKE-N NOTES: Added by Julia in a Natural Disaster roleset endeavor. (from earthquake.01-n) EARTHQUAKE-V NOTES: Automatically added alias.

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
earthquake (n.)
earthquake (v.)

Roles:

        The "VSP" function tags on 'death/injury toll' and 'damages/cost' correspond to the RED cause relation.
        Arg1-PPT: ground shaken (plates, region, epicenter)
        Arg2-EXT: magnitude, generally Richter scale
        Arg3-VSP: death/injury toll
        Arg4-VSP: damages/cost

Example: earthquake-n: arg 2

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Strike-slip faults tend to be oriented near vertically, resulting in an approximate width of 10 km within the brittle crust,[7] thus earthquakes with magnitudes much larger than 8 are not possible.

        Rel: earthquakes
        Arg2: with magnitudes much larger than 8

Example: earthquake-n: arg1- plate mentioned

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Southwestern British Columbia?s largest recorded earthquake is an example of a North American Plate earthquake.

        Arg1: North American Plate
        Rel: earthquake

Example: earthquake-n: Illustrative of loc as arg1

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of Northern California.

        Arg1: San Francisco
        Rel: earthquake
        Argm-tmp: of 1906

Example: earthquake-n: Arg1 as PP

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        People on Sacramento Street watch smoke rise from the fires that followed the earthquake in San Francisco on April 18 1906.

        Rel: earthquake
        Arg1: in San Francisco
        Argm-tmp: on April 18 1906.