Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170921:06:13:00
Earthquake. >> yes. normally -- i'm having a little trouble with my ear piece. normally the situation where you have an earthquake, two tectonic plates come together in a collision, which is some of the run of the mill normal earthquake, which releases all the energy that causes the destruction. that didn't happen here. it was just one tectonic plate which ruptured, which is unusual. >> normally a great earthquake, it is the interface between the two plates sliding that creates an earthquake. this is the lower plate, that ocean slab, breaking and pulling apart. it's also why we're seeing a dea...
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