Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120312:01:23:00
>> when you hit something like 9.0, that's catastrophic. these two plates came together and one submitted to the other. it acquiesced. in this process called subduction. and as it moved, the earth buckled and then popped. >> from this video from yokohama city, buildings sway, streets buckle, and walls wobble. >> the engineering community is used to design buildings to withstand this kind of seismic motion and contrary to popular belief, actually taller buildings usually are doing better than short buildings because they are very flexible and they can ride out an earthquake like this without ma...
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