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Fema director. >> yes, it did. in the united states, particularly california, oregon and washington state, and even in arkansas, and even in a city of new york has earthquake problems. in 1811, 1812, you know, in arkansas we had an 8.0 earthquake. it rang the bells in the churches in boston. and right now we found a new fault in arkansas that just reese emily had a 5.8. they are having like -- hundreds a day of smaller quakes. and that fault line is getting bigger. it was an unknown fault line and -- but -- we wouldn't have the tsunami possibility unless it is on the west coast and it is out i...

In the u.s.? i know some of this must have kept you up late at night as fema director. >> yeah, it did. and the thing of it is here in the united states, particularly california, oregon and washington state, and even in arkansas, and even in the city of new york has earthquake fault, so 1811, 1812 in arkansas we had an 8.0 earthquake. it rang the bells on the churches in boston. right now we found a new fault in arkansas, they call it the guy fault, that just recently had a 5.8 and they're having like hundreds a day of smaller quakes. and that fault line's getting bigger. but it was an unknown...

Five seconds can make all the difference for people during an earthquake. lynn? >> you can imagine. also we're hearing some talk about a possible quake in indonesia, as well? >> there was. there was a 6.4 magnitude earthquake off the coast of indonesia. they didn't issue a major tsunami alert. people in that part of the world, of course, very sensitive to tsunamis after the enormous tsunami that hit them with such destructive force. they said there might be a small tsunami in the area around the epicenter but also a minor quake. >> they're still keeping an eye on the tsunami possibility but th...

Earthquake possibilities here in california, but the tsunami possibility looks real, too, doesn't it? >> it is. and there's been a lot of damage over the years in california from tsunamis, especially in our ports, the ports of los angeles and long beach suffered significant damage in both 1960 and 1964. so it's a real risk. it's not as common as our earthquakes but it's big. >> and what we think of as our big earthquakes, 1989 here up in northern california, san francisco, 1994 was it -- yeah, the north ridge earthquake in the los angeles area, they both had about 60 fatalities. is our ability...

Long, whereas the one in the sumatran earthquake was about a thousand miles long so much more water was displaced in sum ma tra and therefore went out. we also seem to have been lucky to some extent. you can see that as it travels out across the ocean you get sort of little, you know, focusing areas that are stronger than some others and none of those seem to have really come in at the more distant sites. but, of course, nobody in chile would consider themselves lucky. it was a very damaging tsunami there. >> now, watching that wave move across that screen, i now finally understand why i was r...