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Installati constellations in the stars we see patterns but don't think that holds up to statistical analysis. there's no reason for concern that the earthquake in japan would trigger a similar earthquake or earthquakes over in this area, but we were talking about the analogy between the earthquake in japan and what could happen in the u.s. the sub duction zone off alaska is similar to the one off japan and the one running from vancouver, canada to eureka in northern california. that's a subduction zone as well and that produce a bigger earthquake like the one in japan and could likely be tsuna...

Different topics. first to you, mr. vernon. what happened under the earth? has this got anything to do with what happened in new zealand and what might happen now and later. >> what happened in japan was a subduction zone earthquake which created a magnitude 8.9 event which propagated a lot of energy into the shore there. creating a tsunami that you've 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 wh...

>> what happened in japan was a sub duction zone earthquake which created a magnitude 8.9 event which propagated a lot of energy into the shore there. creating a tsunami that you've 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 subduction zone. we've got two plates moving together. one under the pacific ocean, it's sliding down underneath japan. it has to...

Back towards japan, there was a 30-foot wave there somewhere. it's called a subduction zone. the wave pushes down. this plate gets crusted together. and the two pieced of land are pushed together and one pops up. as it popped into the moisture here, it has to go somewhere and eventually pushes the water up, and the bubble of water is the tsunami. there was a lot of shabing and a lot of damage because of the shaking. but i would say 90% of the fatalities would be caused by that bubble or that wall of water that came onshore yesterday. wolf. >> chad, is there any way to compare this earthquake t...

They are all about the same, six feet right there. if you see one wave in california and say oh, it's over. no it's not. that wave is going to go out and another one is right behind it, 20 minutes later and going to go out and another one is behind it 20 minutes later. this is a long-term event, and people need to be literally away from the shore. there's nothing more to say than that. >> of course, you said something that caught our attention here, that this is a big deal, that might be in the lifetime of people on that coast the biggest event. how do we know that? it hasn't happened yet. >> ...