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Handful of earthquakes every year. oklahomans forget about that. >> gregg: geological faults or at the time tonic plates that is shifting? is that what is causing it? >> that is exactly what is causing this. there is a fault that is well pronounced in the geology in geo physics, called the rosetta fault. weve had earthquakes in the past but this is by far the largest sequence weve seen. >> gregg: i was reading a story in associated press. it says oklahoma typically has about 50 earthquakes a yea...

>> remember you can catch all of chriss interviews with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and mark warner and chambliss saxby. >> the massive earthquake in japan appears to have moved the country by eight feet. look at these satellite images that show japans coastline. the national constitute of geo physics says it shifted the planet near four inches. before and after images that show the devastation. that one is a neighborhood of homes almost completely all destroyed. another one shows ext...

Still erupting. we have news about it. with me right now one of the top volcano experts in iceland. his name is magnus, he is a professor, geo physics at the university of iceland. you told me before over the last three days this volcano has -- it. >> has. compared to the first three days, when it was creating all the ash particles, tiny particles going to europe and causing the hav vioc. but now its producing much less. >> is that a sign that perhaps the eruptions could be ending soon? >> i don...

Now, experts are calling the quake a megathrust. what that means and what a megathrust can do. well get into the geo physics of all of that, straight ahead. >> im michelle, 43 ears old.