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March 11th, 2011. friday morning, march 11, 2011. in nashville, indiana, john and terry whitcomb had barely had a sip of their morning tea when the news jolted them awake. >> this is a very powerful earthquake. the images are stunning out of japan. >> an epic earthquake hit northern japan, 9.0, near the top end of the richter scale. then a huge tsunami crashing up the coast. it was like watching a disaster movie, this one horribly real. and john and terry's son zach was now right in the middle of it. >> what did you think? >> unreal. this can't be happening. are you sure it's where zach is? ...

2011. in nashville, indiana, john and terry whitcomb had barely had a sip of their morning tea when the news jolted them awake. >> this is a very powerful earthquake. the images are stunning out of japan. >> an epic earthquake hit northern japan, 9.0, near the top end of the richter scale. then a huge tsunami crashing up the coast. it was like watching a disaster movie, this one horribly real. and john and terry's son zach was now right in the middle of it. >> what did you see? >> unreal. this can't be happening. are you sure it's where zach is? are you sure it's in the same region? we were lo...

>> there have been some new buildings which came. they have a hospital just constructed four or five years ago that collapsed. so are these codes up to standards? >> the ground in mexico city is very soft, because it was a lake. so mexico city is surrounded by mountains. if you drop something into a bathtub, the waves -- >> they say it's like building on jelly. >> sometimes. in this case, if you try to go deeper, you can find water 50 centimeters under the surface. so the underground is very unstable, very soft. >> also, the tectonic plates that mexico city is built on, very susceptible to ear...

Thousands of years into the past, which we can do by looking at ocean sediments and lake sediments -- there's a lynchage -- linkage. >> this is scientifically provable. >> that's right, and we're finding new fates. the fukushima fault that generated the 9.0 earthquake was not even on the charts. it was not known to sustain a 9.0. and so seismologists got it completely wrong with the fukushima disaster. >> we hear about the west coast all the time. people in the mid-south know about in the new madrid fault bit there's another one in tennessee. >> we have to realize, the 1906 san francisco quick...

. read a stunning article by the "new yorker" this week if i lived in the pacific northwest, i would be considering moving seriously. the gist of it is this the federal government he was 13,000 americans will die in a major earthquake and tsunami in the pacific northwest. this is coming. and it's overdue. consider this a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in japan. just a few years ago, it killed thousands in japan. scientists said is that will strike our coast line will be stronger up to a 9.2. it's as bad as it sounds. here's the reason for it.