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The 4.1 or 7. thats the fore shock, but its only 5 miles in-depth. thats considered extremely shallow. that means more energy can be dispersed. she talked about high frequency. thats more violent shaking and then low frequency those are the wave actions you feel and its outwards further. she talked about how it traveled about 10 miles on the fault line. thats because this was called a strike slip. that means the two parcels of land kept horizontal not like a thrust where one is pushed on below t...

85 aftershocks, and now weve got over 150. whats the threshold? typically its 2.5 or higher. they may be counting 2.0s. it tells us there is still a lot of energy trying to be released. lets talk about this, 6.4 and only five miles in depth. thats extremely shallow. covering these around the world almost every month, most of these this size are hundreds of miles deep into the surface. it happened at 10:33, but at 10:05 there was a 4.0. thats the 4 shock. this is the earthquake. now, this is the ...

Shake map or the population that felt either light, moderate or stronger damage. but, first, you usually have one earthquake thats 8.1 or higher. almost 15.5 million people felt shaking, 1.6 million very strong. the usgs has the computer models. theres a 40% chance, and unfortunately were starting to see that, don. we are looking at after shocks. not many have occurred. not many have been recorded right now, but they will. this is going to take days, weeks or even months. any structures that hav...

Because youve got a 75-mile difference from the epicenter. we have 15 and a half million feelings strong shaking and that doesnt include those that felt light, moderate, or even strong. the computer models hinted at the fact there was a 39% chance we would have 100 to a thousand fatalities. thats what were seeing now. the problem is the infrastructure thats been compromised. thousands of homes and businesses, what we have there, originally if you have a 7.1, in the future, you can heres the shak...

Took place. this is the shake map though. you see the bright yellow and green colors indicating that even though it is about 75 miles away from mexico city, people there still felt this earthquake because of how strong it was brooke. >> all right. so were watching that out of mexico but what about hurricane maria. so many people are watching maria down in the atlanta, category 5 headed straight to puerto rico. >> and getting stronger. we now have the latest, winds are higher to 165 miles per hou...

Situation. thanks very much. i want to bring in our meteorologist. hes monitoring the earthquake. what are you seeing as far as earthquake is concerned, tom? >> reporter: well probably start to see earthquakes occurring. you usually have one thats 8.1 or higher, 11 days ago, between a 7 and 7.9 there are 15, and we have seen quite a few of these, but this one is still considered shallow. they occur all the time. and we see them many times several hundred miles deep into the ground. but this one ...

A depth of 51 kilometers. give or take 32 miles deep. that is relatively deep but not deep enough that it wouldnt cause significant damage especially the closer you are to the epicenter point. heres mexico city and the epicenter. all of the yellow, thats what we call the shake map. those are people in those communities that could feel the earthquake. again heres a look. this epicenter is about 75 miles southeast of mexico city. heres the epicenter and heres mexico city. see all these communities...

Look at this. the plate tectonics, it basically parallels with the entire staal it hi region. its called a subduction front. these are 24 millimeters per year. thats the equivalent of what your fingernails or toenails grow. it gives you a perspective how they come together. this is just enough movement to create so much pressure, eventually, they slide and break and we see earthquakes like this unfold. what youre looking at now is the u.s. geological surveys. kind of a shake map is what this is ...

The 7.5 magnitude earthquake, again just west of kathmandu. im going to step off the screen to talk about the particular region. again, kathmandu is the capital of nepal, in the valley, surrounded by the himalayans. and in many other countries, nepal is not that particularly sustained for earthquakes like this. the reinforcement of buildings in nepal have been of major concern. you can see this is just to the northeast of india, where you can see the outskirts of this shake map, indicating some ...

Weve had more earth, more ground to really absorb those shock waves, but this shallow of an earthquake, with aftershocks being a concern, ongoing being as far south as even new delhi. and even northern and eastern portions of india. the epicenter of the strongest earthquake, the original earthquake that took place at 11:41 local in nepal, near katmandu, is about 81 kilometers northwest of the capital. but it does appear that area has taken a significant brunt of the damage considering the popula...