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Areas are also complaining that scores of lives could have been saved if tsunami warnings had been issued more quickly. a series of giant tsunami waves again crashing ashore about a half hour after the quake causing more death and destruction. chilean emergency officials and the military are blaming each other for being slow to issue the warnings. we turn to new efforts by auto -- in the meantime, the earthquake in chile is getting particular attention in america's pacific northwest because the fault system just off washington and oregon is very similar to a fault system off chile. it's all ...

Of quakes? >> yes. it is a very active fault system. you've got the tectonic plates, sub ducting between the south american plate fairly rapidly eight centimeters a year, three inches a year the plates collide. the oceanic plate goes beneath the south american plate in this area. it generates a lot of et quakes. we've had 13 magnitude 7.20 and larger since 1973. to the south of this recent earthquake was the largest earthquake we have recorded with instruments, 9.5 in 1960. >> larry: you are not surprised by the aftershocks? >> we are certainly not surprised by the aftershocks in this earthqua...

10, we experienced a heavy duty earthquake. this is the first real big earthquake i have been in since i was a young child. >> larry: thanks, elliott. you have been doing yeoman-like work. we have a seismologist from the u.s. geological survey. what is the most significant thing that happened today? >> the motor significant is the size. this is a magnitude 8.8 earthquake. this is the fifth largest instrumentally recorded earthquake on record. this is a very big earthquake. it is the first earthquake since 1964 that caused a pacific-wide tsunami warning. this is a very big event. >> larry: the ...

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