Earthquake Moves New Zealand 30 Centimeters
PHILLIPS: You know, there's always been a lot of competition between the Aussies and the Kiwis, as you well know, especially over on the international desk.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Soccer, sailing and</s>PHILLIPS: Yes, exactly. And our correspondents, you know, like Michael Ware and Michael Holmes, they're always going at each other. OK, so now an earthquake, though, is attempting to bring them even closer.</s>MYERS: It did. A 7.7 earthquake here on the western tip of New Zealand, right there, brought it brought it 30 centimeters closer.</s>PHILLIPS: OK, let's put that in perspective.</s>MYERS: OK, I'm going to try to do that. Let's put a 3 and a 0 right there.</s>PHILLIPS: Valerie Butler (ph), our producer, went down to the local antique store, she said, and got the ruler from back when she was in the second grade.</s>MYERS: Remember when you used to pull the little metal strip out of there and...</s>PHILLIPS: Actually, I remember this. A smack in the hand, that's what I got with the footlong ruler. So, really, put it in perspective.</s>MYERS: They're not lowering the airfares, OK...</s>PHILLIPS: OK.</s>MYERS: ... just because it's 30 centimeters closer. But there was that big quake right there, and thiss whole southern island shifted 30 centimeters -- that much -- closer to the big island.</s>PHILLIPS: That's pretty cool stuff.</s>MYERS: Yes, it is.</s>PHILLIPS: Yes. It only took, what, a few seconds for the island to move.</s>MYERS: Big shake.</s>PHILLIPS: Wow.</s>MYERS: Eight days ago.</s>PHILLIPS: Cool stuff.</s>MYERS: All right.</s>PHILLIPS: You want the ruler?</s>MYERS: Sure.</s>PHILLIPS: I think you might give that to your son.</s>MYERS: Careful.</s>PHILLIPS: All right. Well, you had to see this one coming about a mile away. Yes, cemetery owners now defendants. What happens -- well, that's what happens when your graveyard is the scene of such a morbid and massive scandal.