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Seen all sorts of information an videos on and provides a lot of damage onshore. >> is there any way, it's like asking what caused this weather. what causes an earthquake? what is the most basic -- give me a basic primer on that. >> basically what you see happening here is that there's a sub duction zone. we've got two plates moving together. one under the pacific ocean, it's sliding down underneath japan. it has to break every once in a while and that is a very large event which occurs on several hundred year recurrence intervals, but not unexpected to happen in the long-term. >> i've got rel...

Way to build strong buildings. any building that's constructed prior to the imposition of building codes can be very weak. >> let's move up to coast to seattle. how is seattle prepared and what's the likelihood of something there? >> the last major earthquake along the coast of washington occurred around 1700. that was very large. much like the earthquake that occurred in chile. it produced a tsunami. in recent years seattle has become more prepared for an event of that nature. >> this red line, these are fault lines? >> yeah. this red line is a plate boundary. there are two plate boundaries h...