Slip Strike News Today

lord, what a shocking moment there from turkey. good morning to you this monday, im jim sciutto. >> and im erica hill. the death toll continues to rise after this catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck near the border of turkey and syria. more than 1,800 people are now reported dead, but there are concerns that that number could ultimately reach into the tens of thousands. at this hour desperate rescue operations underway. crews searching for survivors who may be trapped un...

hello and welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing the sad news day with us. a massive earthquake shakes turkey and syria leaving thousands dead, buildings toppled. fear now that more will die waiting for rescues that wont happen in time. plus, super power spy games, right now american investigators are searching for the records of that chinese balloon, the weekend shoot down off the carolina coast, punctuating a tense moment between washington ...

A large expanse of the land ruptures or can even slide against each other. this is called a slip strike, which means one land was here, one of the plates here, another plate was here and they go in opposite directions or one goes in one direction. here are the aftershocks pretty much in a line. now, this was the initial quake and the initial shaking. 190 kilometers across, more than 100 miles of ripping of the land, that fault moved more than 100 miles in that direction. not at one time, it may ...

Down below goes for miles. it keeps rupturing to get this type of number, 7.8. this one ruptured almost 120 miles or so. along this red path, thats where the damage is the worst. and its part of the acceleration as the problem with the earthquake itself. let me kind of talk about this. a lot of times we talk about the sumatra earthquake. anything around the ring of fire, we see part of the ocean bottom go up and all of a sudden a tsunami and thats how that works. when you get a slip strike like ...

Slip strike. you see how that moves and you can see the pictures where defenses dont line up anymore. thats when the earth moves this way and buildings shake back and forth like this. but with this new thrust fault here, from about puente hills, its not a horizontal thrust anymore. its a vertical issue were worried about. were worried the strike, the slip, is going to be this way. its going to slide up, and so all the buildings that are up here on top of the earth are going to be pushed up by a ...