Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110222:15:08:00
City in new zealand, very highly populated. that's problem number one. we saw that in haiti. this is a 6.3 magnitude quake, and compared to what happened across the area back in september, and that's when we run into some issues. the ring of fire, the pacific plate that runs into the australian plate, a hot zone for volcanoes and earthquakes. this is very far to the south, close to the south pole, and the fault line here has been very, very active. this is where the september quake was. it was a 7.1 magnitude, much, much larger quake. not quite as shallow, and not nearly as close to chift chur...
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