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Developers are going to try to come up with a different conclusion as to where the fault line runs. >> what about the building that went up before the city drew the fault line? >> reporter: well, we have heard famous stories about that. mainly the sylmar quake in 1971, on an unknown faultline, and the city paid the price. that earthquake devastated the entire city. there were hospitals on there. many houses. 64 people died. in that earthquake. hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, and that quake, that fault line was just discovered 20 years after that quake. so, now the concern here is, i...

>> 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...