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And tested first that naval base in new jersey. >> cameras have never been inside the oil spill research and training facility until now. heres allan chernoff with a cnn exclusive. >> reporter: when cleaning up an oil spill, how does the oil industry know exactly what to do? what techniques are going to work? the research is done right here at the oil and hazardous materials simulated environmental test tank. this is run by the material department minerals management service and it is the larges...

Water, a slick forms and expands, but its all intentional. here the government creates controlled oil spills in a giant tank more than two football fields long. operators create ocean wave conditions, then they use various techniques to clean it all up. there are three primary plans of attack for cleaning oil spills in the water. burn the oil, apply chemical dispersants to break it down, or manually remove it, all three are at work in the gulf of mexico. >> you would try to use as many technique...

Interior department minerals management service largest of its kind in the world. oil sprays into the water, a slick forms and expands. but its all intentional. here the government creates controlled oil spills in a giant tank more than two football fields long. operators create ocean wave conditions, then they use various techniques to clean it all up. there are three primary plans of attack for cleaning oil spills in the water. burn the oil, apply chemical dispersants to break it down or manua...

Here the government creates controlled oil spills in a giant tank more than two football fields long. operators create ocean wave conditions, then they use various techniques to clean it all up. there are three primary plans of attack, burn the oil, apply chemical dispersants or manually remove it. all three are at work in the gulf of mexico. >> you would try to use as many techniquies as you can. >> reporter: you get out every form of artillery youve got? >> yes,sir. >> reporter: today they are...

It was like a wave on the ground. >> goodness. well, luckily, you survived with no injuries from this. but we are looking at video of a lot of tahj. we appreciate you sharing your experience with us. stay safe because we understand aftershocks will continue for days and possibly weeks. this video is quite amazing, though, cars just, you know, turned upside down. and we have so much more coming in to cnn including video and interviews with others who have experienced this earthquake and magnitude...

An earthquake. and im going to ask dr. frankel to join me here in a second. well talk act these couple different waves and hell be able to tell you. hes my seismology guy. theres the train wreck type of wave that you feel where all of the earths at toms bump into each other and they all just keep moving very fast. thats the first wave, the first shake that you would feel. theres a secondary twhaef you feel that comes through the earth, comes kind of across the crest of the earth. and then there ...

Thing are probably the reason why theres less fatalities. >> tell me about wood structures compared to the haitian structures that were on reinforced concrete. >> unreinforced brick buildings they cannot withstand up-or-down motion or side-to-side motion. wood structures can absorb some of that. wood-frame houses are a much better building material to use in an earthquake-prone area. >> well get back to this. this is going to show where the wave, why the wave was generated and where its going. >...

>> aftershocks. >> with an 8.8, couldnt that move other plates around to maybe cause another one? >> theres also a possibility of what we called triggered cognis ti, but its hard to tell. >> plenty of aftershocks. angela, go ahead and play this because well figure out what happens. >> heres the sea floor and its a ducking plate and the the rupture of that plate moving up. >> so the rupture pushes -- >> pushes the sea floor up. >> pushes is sea floor up. >> and that pushes the water -- of course ...

Stronger than the first one. correctsome. >> thats true. the first one could be just a bit of a warm-up and you could easily be fooled. first one comes through and then the water goes back out and then people go back to the beach and they can get hit by even a bigger wave. so its a dangerous situation. it sounds like in hawaii theyre not only going to evacuate but keep them out of harms way for at least six hours. >> an extended period of time. i want to read you from a statement that winehouse ...

Emergency vehicles in there. >> rob, let me ask you this. when you have a situation that youve got an earthquake and a tsunami that occurs after, how much time in between do the folks living there have? >> depends on how far you are from the quake. that village probably less than 00 miles from the epicenter so youve got a twhaef travels at 500 miles an hour so youre got ten minutes. >> basically a one-two punch. >> you feel it and here comes the wave. if anybody lived close tho that shoreline, t...