Strike Slip News Today

good morning, everyone. we start with really serious news this morning. there is devastation happening. the staggering death toll keeps rising in turkey and syria after a catastrophic earthquake. 1300 people are now reported dead and a powerful after shock. it just hit just moments ago. well go live to istanbul for the latest on this frantic search. and new fallout from the downing of a chinese spy balloon. president biden is preparing to deliver his second state of the union address...

Seconds. We stayed under the table until the shaking stopped. I said well be okay. Were starting to get the initial video and pictures. Obviously everybody is posting things. That were seeing from the effects of that tremor. What were seeing is an impressive fire. This is not from the yesterday. This is from now. This is from a im waiting to get the location. It maybe ridge crest, california. Where alex it is ridge crest. Confirmation. You might be looking at video that we sent in. Were working ...

Some of the earthquakes they had eight months ago. Once that comes in and well be able to go through and look a bit better if we have anymore in the way of information. Just to give you a quick glance here Around The World anything from a 6. 6 to 6. 9 weve seen them all year. That is not many earthquakes. Tom, stay with us. Were going to continue our coverage. That is it for me. Im going to hand this over to brook baldwin to continue our coverage of this earthquake thats a 6. 4 in california. An...

See the ground open up. but now at the 7.1 magnitude, theyre saying the ground is opening up. and by the way, 7.1 magnitude earthquake, it was abnormally quiet for 20 years. typically, there would be a 7.something magnitude earthquake once every ten years. so we might have seen one or two in the last 20 years. we didnt see anything. thats why people were in quiet voices going when are we going to see the big? when are we going to see the big one? this is a big one, but this is out here, not like...

Striking fault. down here and its not at all clear that part moved in the 7.1. >> do you know what kind of earthquake it was yet? >> what do you mean by kind of earthquake. >> strike slit. >> thats something we can get from the seismic records. >> just to follow on with that the event yesterday was left lateral. strike slip. when released some compression on what we think is the fault that ruptured this evening in the 7.1. this that presumably is a right lateral strike slip. with it. basically m...

Southwest striking fault, so down here, and that part has moved into the 7.1. >> reporter: do you know what kind of earthquake it was yet? >> what do you mean what kind of earthquake? strike slip, that is something we can get from the seismic records quickly. >> just to follow along with that, yesterday, it was a lateral strike slip, which actually released some depression on what we think is the fault that rupture this evening. at the 7.1. this event, presumably is a right striking slip. but ba...

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...

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...

Then the water backs up and it begins moving? >> right. its basically a slip fault or a strike slip that happens underwater and causes a wave to occur and push water away from it like you see in a bathtub or swimming pool and thats what hit areas of japan first. came across and hit some islands in hawaii and now have made it ashore in california but whens interesting is that as it spreads out its not the same impact all along the coast. theres a greater impact. if you look at that modeling there...

Sink, and take your hands and put them in theres and if you do this kind of motion and look at the surface of the water, you will create a tsunami to displace the water. but if you do this, you will pop the water up. that is a more significant displacement of water, an therefore, you will get a more significant tsunami, and the difference in haiti is that we had the strike slip. here, we have what we call the convergent plates, and this is the south american plate, the nazca plate which is movin...