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Magnitude earthquake of 7 or 7.9 about 15 a year. if this gets reassigned to the usgs 8 or higher that would be something that does not occur on a typical annual average. this is what is called a shake map. i want to show you just where we are. this is the himalayas. inda, nepal. katmandu, the capital of nepal. and the epicenter, just about 81 kilometers north and west. this yellow line here, this is depicting the area where we saw the most intense shaking of this earthquake. and im also going t...

And that can oftentimes, more often than not, result in significant damage. in fact, the class in tellers of the earthquake intensity, this was considered already a major, major earthquake from the u.s. geological survey if it was reassessed to be an 8 or higher on the richter scale, that would be considered a great earthquake. something that only happens about one time a year. unfortunately, this has happened in a very populated part of the world. and the pictures that are streaming in on socia...

In fact, only 62 miles from iquique here. the wave actually hit iquique in 20 minutes, and in some spots, even less than that. we know a wave was generated out into the ocean as well, but most of the energy along the larger part of the wave was right here very close to the epicenter. the shaking -- in fact, look at this here for a second -- the shaking strong to very strong. this yellow, if you go to the shake map of the southern california earthquake that hit over the weekend, almost the exact ...

Three days ago. this is a great quake. we did not have a great quake in california. we were down here. but let me show you that same shake map for california. we had the same colors right here because it was right under that area of los angeles. so this is the quake, its the same shaking as they saw down here, but you have to assume that the buildings in los angeles have been retrofitted, with a little better quality structure than we have down in chile. heres what happened, heres why its signif...

its not clear if hell attend the hearing. one person who will is deborah. she says she hopes manson will be there. >> i think that he needs to look into our eyes, victims eyes and see the pain that hes caused. i think that is something that is essential to his coming to peace, perhaps before he passes. as you said, this is probably going to be his last parole hearing. >> we are monitoring the hearing in california and will bring developments as they happen. in a couple hours, we are go...

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they have lines you can call in before you take your kids on a trip. >> get me up to speed on the elderly. didnt they change? >> they did. were talking limited screening, too. people over 75 at a couple of airports, four, can keep their shoes on, a light jacket, they can go through the metal detector or screening device to try to avoid that pat-down. this is part of eliminating the pools of risk as the tsa calls it. >> a kinder, gentler trip for the rest of us. thanks so much, lizzie. ...

while you were out last night? another dead satellite falling out of the sky, this one, were told, the size of a minivan. we think its crashed back to earth. we just dont know where. also, were going to be heading to ft. bliss this morning where everybody is celebrating. you can imagine why. their loved ones are coming home from iraq for good in a few weeks. a special good morning to the men and women watching us on the american forces network all around the world, thank you for what y...

is really prepared for this kind of quake or worse, and the other breaking news story were following, bullets flying from moammar gadhafis compound in tripoli, only hours after it was captured by rebels. cnn goes inside the compound as chaos, looting and celebrations unfold. were following a very dangerous and uncertain situation in libya right now. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." millions of americans on the east coast and beyond heard the ground rumble and felt buil...

Magnitude scale, either one is considered a major quake. you can see here the one that occurred on march 11th, was considered 8 or more. in terms of the violent shaking, the shake map shows most of the shaking that was felt was fairly concentrated to that region. heres the epicenter, areas to the closest in yellow indicate very strong shaking to strong or moderate shaking. unfortunately a lot of structures are still hanging on very barely after the major earthquake that occurred there. thats why...