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Around the world. it's comparable in size to the quake in chile last year, that's a magnitude 8.8 and very similar kind of rupture in both cases. the thrust earthquake at a reduction zone. >> i'm interested as we're watching this video, this alarming video coming out of japan now, is it your estimation that there be more damage from the earthquake or from the tsunami? >> you know, that's a good question. the japanese are probably more prepared for earthquakes than anybody in the world in terms of buildings and infrastructure. but, you know, if i had to make a guess based on those same videos t...

Roger shilham. different fault lines and people asking questions, are they related but completely separate incidents, aren't they? >> absolutely. completely different plates that are colliding. in one case and sliding past each other in another and the mechanisms of the earthquakes are very different. in chile it was very large thrust earthquake that probably suddenly raised the sea floor in places and sunk it in others and in chile very little movement of the sea floor and as a result the tsunami generated in haiti was quite small. >> so, is there actually, we make so much of the magnitude an...

>> gregg: i grew up in southern california, los angeles, and experienced a great many earthquakes and later in san francisco where i lived. there were two different kinds. there was the volt and then the sustained earthquake. do those respectively create different kinds and levels of tsunamis in duration? >> the bigger difference here if this happens in like a sub deduction zone and if it happens over water. you are talking about a mega thrust earthquake in a zone like this, you have two plates. these two plates that are pushing against each other, moving in opposite directions, towards each o...

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