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Down underneath japan. it has to break every once in a while and that is a very large event which occurs on several hundred year recurrence intervals, but this is something that's not unexpected to happen in the long term. >> i've got relatives that live out -- my wife's from san francisco and i have another relative, she's always afraid she'll be there for one of these things. do we know about the potential of something like this happening in california? >> the san andreas fault is not large enough to sustain a magnitude 8.9 earthquake. it can go up to about 8.0. the place that has this kind ...

Things. do we know about the potential of something like this happening in california? >> the san andreas fault is not large enough to sustain an earthquake like this. the place that has this kind of rift in north america is the cascade zone between british columbia, the state of oregon and into northern most california. >> hold on there. i want to go to jim walsh. jim, we have a big debate. you're part of it probably in this country about the safety of nuclear energy. we know we have energy challenge. can't get as much gas as we'd like, so people are looking to nuclear energy to take care of ...