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>> that gives you the feeling of what it was like. to give you a better idea of the forces behind the wave of destruction, i want to bring in chad myers and jim garrity. a seismologist at columbia university. chad, why was the tsunami as big as powerful as it was? was it just because of the magnitude of the quake? >> and the closeness and the proximity to japan in general. it was only about five minutes away technically speed wise. so when the earth below the water thrust itself up, the crust literally, the surface of the ocean bottom was pushed up by the earthquake, all the water moved as wel...

>> that gives you the feeling of what it was like. to give you a better idea of the forces behind the wave of destruction, i want to bring in chad myers and jim garrity. chad, why was the tsunami as big as powerful as it was? was it just because of the magnitude of the quake? >> and the closeness and the proximity to japan in general. it was only about five minutes away technically speed wise. so when the earth below the water thrust itself up, the crust literally, the surface of the ocean bottom was pushed up by the earthquake, all the water moved as well and it moved very quickly into japan ...