Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190706:05:41:00
>> that's actually relatively common because let's imagine you're pressing something, if you actually see something you'll often see conjugate cracks showing up. cracks on the side of buildings that's what this is, so you're accomplishing the same response to stress whether you move this way on this one or this way on this one. >> and does that determine the direction of the energy at all? >> it can. >> it can. there is a pattern around the fault that's called a radiation pattern, so there's one direction when an earthquake moves that gets less shaking than other directions. for instance, poin...