Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110311:07:09:00
We want to get an idea from you, can you put this in perspective, 8.9 quake off the coast of japan? >> it's one of the largest, probably one of the largest earthquakes in the history of seismolo seismology. the preliminary magnitudes were 7.9, then about like 25 to half an hour later, as more information became available, it was updated to an 8.8. the latest update is actually an 8.9. that's probably the largest earthquake than we saw in chile, which was an 8.8. >> it's my understanding that that increase of an estimation from a 7.9 is ten times worse. >> roughly speaking, yes. basically since...
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