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were talking breaking news out of turkey where a major earthquake has struck the southern part of the country. officials say the death toll has now risen to at least 17. the u.s. geological survey says the 7.8 magnitude quake was centered east of nadagi in gaziant. p province. officials say multiple buildings have collapsed not just in turkey but also in syria. an aftershock with a magnitude of 6.7 struck northwest of the initial quake about 11 minutes later. a local journalist tells c...

Seconds. We stayed under the table until the shaking stopped. I said well be okay. Were starting to get the initial video and pictures. Obviously everybody is posting things. That were seeing from the effects of that tremor. What were seeing is an impressive fire. This is not from the yesterday. This is from now. This is from a im waiting to get the location. It maybe ridge crest, california. Where alex it is ridge crest. Confirmation. You might be looking at video that we sent in. Were working ...

Again, we were on our way to a story. Hi, sir. Did you just feel that earthquake we had. Yes. A short time ago. Yeah. Tell us tell us where you were going and what kind of sensation it was for you. Oh, i was in my office down there. I felt a very strong shake. You fet a strong shake. Did you feel the earthquake yesterday. No, yesterday i was in a boat some he didnt feel it. You were on a boat yesterday. Yeah. So today, can you tell us kind of what kind of feeling was it and for you, did it feel ...

Did you guys notice anybody from the theater leaving . To gate no. We were in view of the theater. Sir, what is your name . To get my name is robert. Tell me what you felt tonigh compared to yesterday morning . Did you feel it also yesterday . Yesterday morning i was lucky. I was at work and i hadnt noticed anything at all until m coworkers or did you feel that and i said feel what. She was like well, we felt this. I said no. And then as i can later my boss called and said hey, can you make sure...

>> certainly this is a very serious event, and my heart goes out to the people who are affected. this is certainly not an area that has felt earthquakes before. its a seismojennic area. its a very large fault zone. but its a larger earthquake than theyve experienced anytime in recent memory. >> how common are these types of quakes of a magnitude of 7.8? >> well, i think the most recent example that you might use for a comparison was not exactly on this fault system but was nearby on a neighborin...

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Upper-plate normal faults along forearcs often accumulate slip during > Mw 6 earthquakes. Such normal faults traverse the forearc of the Hellenic Subduction System (HSS) in Greece and are the focus of this study. Here, we use detailed field-mapping and analysis of high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) to study 42 active normal faults on the islands of Kythira and Antikythira in the Aegean Sea. Onshore fault kinematic data are complemented by seabed bathymetry mapping of ten offshore...

More bad news coming, tropical storm grace is formed and could hit haiti and when you dump rain, sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, thats going to make a life or death situation so much worse. >> thank you, patrick. allison, there are two named storms in the frregion, fred an grace. in any way, did storm activity possibly trigger an earthquake like this? >> not even 1% chance. what we want to point out is that grace will have impact on the area in the form of rain. theyre going to be cleaning...

Potentially more tragic. thank you so much to you both. appreciate it. susan hoff is a s seismologist. what does data tell you about the quake? >> good afternoon. you covered a lot of basic information. it was slightly larger earthquake, significantly part of the west. that made the difference for port-au-prince. shaking was a lot less severe. it appears wasnt too much damage in the capital city. it was the same fault system as the 2010 event so we are looking at data to understand how the fau...