Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161030:09:09:00
Look at this. the plate tectonics, it basically parallels with the entire staal it hi region. its called a subduction front. these are 24 millimeters per year. thats the equivalent of what your fingernails or toenails grow. it gives you a perspective how they come together. this is just enough movement to create so much pressure, eventually, they slide and break and we see earthquakes like this unfold. what youre looking at now is the u.s. geological surveys. kind of a shake map is what this is ...
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