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Old 12-27-2004, 02:07 PM   #38 (permalink)
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yahoo said that over a 620-mile section of the fault line shifted. It must have taken decades for the pressure to build up that far. Even if the shift along the line was 1 inch, it was over 600 MILES of the ocean floor that shifted at the same time!
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