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When were talking about earthquake rates, whats happening on the faults, i didnt include that. >> yesterday you talked about theres no way to predict. >> thats right, all of this is random and it is something people dont like. on top of that random distribution, we add earthquake triggering. so when we talk about a random distribution, that is as sequences. this is still all one sequence for all that weve had a couple thousand earthquakes at this point. the account was about 1500 before the 7.1 ...

One in 20 approximately that there will be something bigger coming. >> the strongest earthquake that has been felt in the united states in some two decades. and we have become familiar with the san andres fault but this fault seemingly quiet. what do we know of this one? >> so, we know that we only really know about earthquakes in california for the last 250 maybe 300 years. when weve been recording the history of them. and california is a big state. we also know that there are faults all over c...

Was the so called bi og one tha weve been worried about. of course the answer is no. the faults in this sequence are more than 100 miles away from the infamous san andreas fault which is the fault expected to start the so-called big earthquake. what happened here is not supposed to make a major earthquake at is san andreas anymore or less likely. each year seismologists tell us that the odds of a major is an andre us earthquake happening are about 2%. >> and i saw you last night talking about al...

We did find fault surface rupture out of the base on highway 178 where we see images from last night and on highway 178, it continues to the northeast and southwest. this is a somewhat atypical type of earthquake in southern california. weve seen these before on what we call cross faults, faults that are against the san andreas fault system. the san andreas fault is running from northwest to southeast like a big diagonal cut. against it, perpendicular to what are another set of faults that we ca...

20, 25 miles extending in this direction. but there have been a cluster of aftershocks that have taken place in this vicinity. but these faults are perpendicular. youll see an l-shaped focus on this as we zoom in a little bit closer. where you see the red, those are the aftershocks that we have seen just in the past hour. how many fore shocks, how many aftershocks have we seen? hundreds upon hundreds. estimates are over 1,000. and it appears that for years we will see these aftershocks if in fac...

Whatever his faults, a person who instinctively understood who republicans needed to be for. at the end of the day, they didnt necessarily want the republican party to be for those folks. they do not like the policies that come from it, they do notan like the country that would come from it, so theres a lot of vitriol directed at people who voted for donald trump, whether excitedly or not. >> tucker: a u.s. combat veteran lost all four of his limbs fighting in afghanistan. he is still serving hi...

About somebody who was antielitist, effectively taking over the republican party, they recognized that trump was, whatever his faults, a person who instinctively understood who republicans needed to be for. at the end of the day, they didnt necessarily want the republican party to be for those folks. they do not like the policies that come from it, they do not like the country that would come from it, so theres a lot of vitriol directed at people who voted for donald trump, whether excitedly or ...

Soun sound. im glad they did it. >> when we got the news, biggest quake in 20 years, everyones mind goes to the big one. the faults that have had over 100 years since the last major earthquake. seems to be a question of time. do you feel that california is prepared for the big one? >> i dont know that anybody can really be completely prepared. i think who knows what mother nature is going to wreak upon us when she makes that decision. i thinking about as ready as one can be, understanding what i...

It is a great opportunity. >> a great opportunity because it does appear there has not been any casualties or major injuries. 6.4 may sound to somebody outside of california very large. how would you describe what that feels like? >> for me, it felt like the ground was shaking for 20 seconds under my feet. if you are closer, obviously the shaking is much, much stronger. if it happens under old brick buildings, it could easily knock them down. thats the size of the earthquake. >> dr. lucy jones w...

It to go in. so for a short time there were two alerts, one from us, one from the tsunami warning center and when we recognized it was there we went in and cleaned it up. that is not getting rid of an earthquake. by the way, ive heard the conspiracy theorists about that. its just we cleaned it up. >> and just to clarify additionally we had been talking about two faults and so forth. thats still the case. >> were not -- not until we get a geologist on the ground. >> there are reports about faults...