Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100227:13:57:00
>> if you hear richter scale, they don't know what they're talking about. yes don't use that word anymore. >> this is moment magnitude and it is a function of the fault plain area that rupp churs and the length of the rupture. the surface -- the surface rupture, the surface length along the trench and then the area of the downgoing slab that ruptures. >> let me draw this in three dimension. we're going to take this and draw it up pretending we're going up toward peru. this continues to go. this fault lasts a long dista e distance. it goes all of the way -- up into central america. >> that's ri...
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