Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100227:13:57:00
>> if you hear richter scale, they dont know what theyre talking about. yes dont use that word anymore. >> this is moment magnitude and it is a function of the fault plain area that rupp churs and the length of the rupture. the surface -- the surface rupture, the surface length along the trench and then the area of the downgoing slab that ruptures. >> let me draw this in three dimension. were going to take this and draw it up pretending were going up toward peru. this continues to go. this fault...
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