Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100228:05:39:00
What we had in haiti was the strike slip. you have plates across the planet, and they are constantly moving, but the way they are moving is important. because of the way that the plates that we are talking about here the plate here and the south american plate, converge, and this plate, the nazca plate is subverting underneath the next plate which is how you get the andes mountains and the volcanoes as well. we are talking about a convergent plate, and why is that important? it will cause the earthquake just like haiti, but in haiti we had lateral movement and strike slip quake. but not the ca...
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