Most mining deaths take place in? Open pit mines
strip mines subsurface mines

subsurface mines

Explanation:

Generally speaking, surface mining usually is less hazardous than underground mining. Most of the deaths today occur in developing countries, especially China. China's coal mines are the world's deadliest, killing an average of 13 miners a day.

true. earthquakes are felt whenever there is a slip around a fault in the rocks below the earth. this reorientation of faults create sesmic waves and is known as earthquake, the severity of which is measured in richter scale. these are more prominent in hilly regions as the rocks usually form faults to balance the pressures on it.