Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110311:07:51:00
We asked dale grant with the usgs, what's the deal with the adjusting? newwe have an 8.9. earthquakes this large in particular, the sensors, the instruments closest to it are going to peg. so you have all this noise. you have to analyze the instruments farther away from it to get a better idea of what it is. so now what we have is an 8.9 earthquake, 231 miles northeast of tokyo. >> let's get dr. lucy jones' perspective on that. you heard chris warren talking about how this is 100 times bigger than the earthquake in haiti. >> it actually gets a little more complicated, depending on what you mea...