Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110311:19:13:00
It's a different scale all together. >> the scale rises exponentially, of course. we're talking about 7, 7.5, that's something significant. when you go from 7 to an 8, you're not talking about a 5%, 10%, tenfold increase. when you get from a 7 to almost a 9, almost a 1,000 time increase as far as shaking is concerned, so, yes, this is one of the most -- the fifth largest earthquake in recorded history. the largest earthquake folks in japan have seen in recorded history for them. the previous one going back to 1707, october of 1707, there was an 8.6 in this general area. >> guess what happened ...
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