Is the Pacific vunerable to a major quake

Updated May 14, 2008 10:55:25

Hard on the heels of the Burma cyclone, there has of course been a major earthquake in southwest China, and substantial loss of life.And geologists say many Pacific nations, sitting as they do where the earth's tectonic plates converge, have the potential to experience quakes as large, or even larger than the Sichuan disaster.

Presenter: Tom Fayle
Speaker: Phil Cummins, senior scientist at Geoscience Australia