Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100228:04:56:00
Tectonic plate business. the earth goes up and down, and huge swath of earth move up and down relative to each other. and is that more or less what happened? >> in this case, what's going on, the pacific ocean is being pushed beneath south america, but it doesn't slide under gracefully. it gets locked and stopped. and in this region, the pushing of the pacific basin under south america has been locked since 1835. and that's a long time. it suddenly let's loose, and when it does, it does so with a lot of shaking in the vertical motion and horizontal. and as you heard from your eyewitness, who j...