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Flooding being a major concern on a mountainous island as well. another natural disaster is the 7.1 earthquake, 30 miles deep. this is an extremely shallow quake, so very little buffering provided by the earth. felt hundreds of miles from the center. magnitude of at least 6.1 or greater is typically expected with a quake of this magnitude. then you work into the hundreds if not thousands of aftershocks. certainly going to be a very scary situation for a lot of people across central mexico for th...

Thats what you are seeing right now. there have been five aftershocks, four of those have been 5-plus magnitude intensity. unnerving to feel something like that. the depth is 35 kilometers or just about 21, 22 miles deep. wouldnt say its shallow or deep. its something in between. globally how many 8.0 magnitude earthquakes do we see in a year? one. and this one occurred about 150 kilometers off the coast just to the outside of the -- or just to the west of chiapa state. and hurricane irma has no...

Its 20 miles deep, kubrick that down? what kind of damage cannot cause? when i could much out yet as it just happen. >> its a large quake that could potentially cause damage. it is located about 50 miles off the coast, but this area has produced large quakes in the past, so its a very seismically hectic and has produced large quakes and any quake of this size has a potential to be damaging. >> there also talking most in army warnings. >> the last time i checked the tsunami warning center, they w...

Roughly a dozen, are concerned about russian activities near special undersea cables, cables that carry internet connections. the "times" reporting spy ships are operating aggressively in areas near where the cables are extending. they extend, you know, hundreds of miles deep and thousands of miles across the globe. and of course, we rely on those cables for almost all of our internet communications. as the "times" reports that military officials are concerned about russia possibly either disrup...

Would give them a treasure drove of information. it would show the activity on that ship the 12 hours before the capsizing in a perfect world, that would be the speed of the ship, the motion of the ship, whether hatches were open. also potentially the recording of voices in the bridge as the captain and crew were negotiating that horrible storm that cat 4 storm that they faced. it is a very difficult prospect though. the ship is under three miles of water. three miles deep. 15,000 feet below the...

Taboo. they dont want to be on the same side of the fight as them. this creates an additional level of complication for the u.s. we are not only fighting isis we are having to deal with two allies with contradictory priorities. >> over the weekend, the white house said turkey has a right to defend themselves from the kurds. i want to talk more about the situation, the safe zone and the use of the air space, the turkish air space by the u.s. the u.s. settled a deal to create a safe zone for civil...

Also theres serious discussion about the orion, towed side scan sonar device which does everything in realtime. gives greater flexibility and can go to a much greatest depth, too. one of the issues is the area they are searching at the moment is like a plateau, 4.5 thousand meters deep and then it drops to 6,000 miles deep. they need to get more or better assets if the search is to be widened considerably. >> lets talk about the big picture or the long haul so to speak, mary. we know malaysian a...

Sonar device which does everything in realtime. gives greater flexibility and can go to a much greatest depth, too. one of the issues is the area they are searching at the moment is like a plateau, 4.5 thousand meters deep and then it drops to 6,000 miles deep. they need to get more or better assets if the search is to be widened considerably. >> lets talk about the big picture or the long haul so to speak, mary. we know malaysian and australian authorities are mapping out a long term search foc...

Submarine looking for things on the ocean floor. lets bring in cnns analyst david gallo, a co-leader for air france 447 and add woods hall oceanographic institution. the first thing we should point out here, says that good representation of how not simple the bottom is, right? >> yeah. >> its that is flat. the black box is obvious. the water is clear. >> yep. >> well, in the real scenario of the indian ocean, the conditions arent clear. youre dealing with topography. >> you cant see, 3 1/2, 4 mi...

Not too distant future. >> the detection brought optimism, but crews are searching in the area on their own borrowed time. >> the guaranteed shelf life of the pinger battery is 30 days, and it is now 33 days since the aircraft went missing. >> investigators say they will only launch the underwater vehicle bluefin after they are certain the batteries are dead. equipped with side sonar, they can launch materials, but it is slow, once found it could take months to recover the boxes. the water in th...