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Lawrence: Now the Sendai quake in Japan was considered to be one of the five strongest since 1900. It was so powerful, in fact, that it moved the main island of Japan eight feet. This is just one of the 1.3 million earthquakes that occur around the globe each year. The largest ever recorded here in North America: Anchorage, Alaska, 1964. A 9.1. The earth shook for five straight minutes. The energy release was the equivalent of ten million atom bombs the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima. And that's not the biggest earthquake ever recorded. No, the biggest was four years earlier off the coast of Valdivia in Southern Chile. A 9.5 on the Richter scale. Right there. Bam. This quake lasted eleven minutes and spawned a Tsunami eighty-two feet high that leveled Hilo, Hawaii, eight thousand miles away. === Phoebe: Who should we call? Lawrence: Everybody. === Lawrence: OK... who wants a "A" in independent class study? I'm starting a new class: "How to save lives by Hacking Media Outlets"