kynthrus

kynthrus t1_ja6qe1s wrote

The relation is that they are all on Earth. Tectonic plates moving causes pressure to build somewhere else and when that snaps (quake) pressure builds somewhere else. Large quakes have aftershocks as well that last for years.

For Japan quakes above 5 or 6 are very common several times a year, their infrastructure is built for it though.

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kynthrus t1_j6lr9e7 wrote

So those sentences actually don't mean the same thing technically. The image they portray to a native speaker is different.

To simplify it. A big brown brick wall is exactly as it sounds a large wall of bricks that is brown.

A brown brick big wall is a wall made of brown bricks and it's big.

A brick big brown wall is a brown wall that seems to be as big a single brick.

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