Page 883 - Dots News Today

Servants were more corrupt than they were devoted to service. and that he was going to change that. in fact, under blagojevich, the illinois legislature actually passed ethics legislation and signed it. >> you are going to ask him to connect the dots. >> how do you connect those dots? >> we cant wait to hear how he answers that question. we will follow up on how this all goes. and if anything he says, in court. four years after resigning from congress, scandal, former florida congressman mark ...

Instance. also. >> can i ask you the different red dots are those different missing people? >> right and beacon the left, you can put if youre looking for somebody or if you -- or if you have information about somebody and this is the kind of thing that the people can update right now. >> got you, got you, got you. just curious. >> definitely. one of the most e-mailed stories on cpn.com, its about that unusually powerful winter storm that you were mentioning that slammed western europe this week...

Earthquake. >> humongous, right. >> the difference between chile and, for instance, haiti, chile had better building codes and they were better prepared. >> thats right. and also, the chile earthquake took place 20 miles below ground while the haitian earthquake took place eight miles below ground. >> the closer to the surface, the worst for the people. >> more destruction. thats why the tsunami was not as bad as we thought because the earthquake was so deep below the surface. >> we just saw thi...

Fifth most powerful since scientists started keeping records in the early 1900s and call at it megathrust. >> this earthquake would have generated 500 times energy or released 500 times as much energy as the haiti earthquake. >> reporter: the different colored dots represent the 120 aftershocks of the 5.0 magnitude or greater. even with all of this activity, scientists say it doesnt give them a crystal ball to determine if there will be another big one somewhere else in the world. in golden, col...

Earthquake in chile and last months devastating earthquake, of course, in haiti but there are -- but there have been so many this year already. take a look at all the earthquakes from the last 30 days. look at those dots. theyre everywhere including -- look at all of them in the united states. is there something behind all this recent seismic activity or are we just simply better at keeping track of these things? >> well, lets ask somebody who knows all about it. science expert and professor of ...

Band has been lifted from what you just heard. you heard from our reporter, theres ban huge aftershock. zoom in and take a look at here. we are watching for one aftershock. im going to walk over to googlette to show you the magnitude of it as i set is cursor here. 6.1 is the most recent aftershock in chile right now. this is a large aftershock. if this was just an earthquake on its own, it would be very intense. because we started off yesterday with 8.8. it is not surprising we are seeing more a...

Magnitude earthquake. but over the next few weeks we will see hundreds and hundreds of aftershocks. this is old earth. lets zoom in. it is one of these dots represents an aftershock. so from santiago to conception, we -- we can see even some of these aftershocks extending southward. some of them you can see out over the local waters over the pacific. and some edging towards the and andes. this is very old ground. georgia tech seismologist was describing this earth as very old earth. feel it shak...

Aftershocks, after the initial big one at 8.8, but they are still significant. the greater earthquake, and the communities can be completely destroyed, be the aftershocks are ranging from 5.0 to 5.9 and we had some a few minutes ago. what can that do? well, minor damage, if that is the initial quake, but if it comes in as an aftershock, after the big earthquake, infrastructure that is is compromised can topple. we can get these for hours and days and weeks on end. haiti continued to get them for...

Back, it seems like to the 1800s in terms of lifestyle. a lot of people have fled to hotels, to homes, communities away from this particular spot to try to find places that have generators or at least some power. the biggest reason we had, of course, not the snow that has been falling right now you see a few little dots of snowfall moving across the screen. but rather the 2 feet of snow you see piled up in many locations. now, the roads are in pretty good shape, but the issue happens to be over ...

122 people are dead in that country and that death toll is expected to rise, although were told probably not dramatically. its because this is a very developed nation. many of the buildings are prepared and built with earthquakes in mind so the death toll wont be what we saw, probably, in haiti. still, it will climb in the days ahead. here is the 8.8. all of the other yellow dots you see on the map are after shocks. this one down here in red is the most recent after shock that we have seen in th...