is pushing into japan, and going under japan's, it's called subducting. the subduction zone is going under. the part that was japan here that this plays on begins to curl in, it begins to get stresses on it. go ahead and hit play. the stresses here get pushed in, pushed in, pushed in, and all of a sudden, at the very last minute right before the earthquake, and there is the earthquake, it pops. and when it pops, it pops the landmass, pushes up the water, and the water gets pushed out as a tsunami. so the story, and you'll find it on cnn.com, as well, is that after the earthquake, japan is now eight feet closer to america than it was before the earthquake. because it was getting pushed, pushed, push, all of a sudden, japan popped to the east by 8 feet. they know this because there are a number of gps locations on