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energy released, except over many hundreds of years. fault zones will be much more prone to having lower magnitude earthquakes. and when we get up into these very high-magnitude earthquakes, they occur very infrequently. they re what we call low probability, high consequence events. the probability of them happening is very low. they only will occur maybe every several hundred years or maybe every thousands of years, but the consequences are just extraordinary. and i think this kind of event is really going to foster a rethinking, as i mentioned before, about this new normal of natural disasters, to think just what kind of risk do we really need to think about and how do we need to prepare in this set of circumstances. you know, fortunately, in this country, we have a national earthquake hazard reduction program, which is focused and targeted on trying to anticipate and to coordinate level at the