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You, they picked it up at virginia tech on the other side of the country. check this animation out. there's the moment the earthquake occurred in southern california. that's as it spread and propagated westward and eastward. and people on the other side of the country saw that. i'm leave you with this image. this is fascinating from the pacific tsunami warning center. this is a time lapse of every earthquake that's occurred since 2001. we've had over 27,000 earthquakes, magnitude 5.0 or stronger. notable ones there. haiti into sumatra and japan. >> ring of fire. >> that's right. >> another phe...

San bernadino counties. molly hunter is in ridgecrest right now. we were told they can expect some aftershocks for quite some time. have you felt major ones so far? >> it hasn't stopped shaking. i was looking at the usgs website that lists the aftershocks in real-time. it was so terrifying. so strong, so violent. it felt like we were shaking for five minutes. that's because we were. there were 11 quakes in very quick succession, within seconds of each other. all over four. the 5.0. 7.1. and it just continued. we were shaking at a really high, really scary level for about five minutes. since th...

Coast. >> get under the table. get under the table. oh, my god. >> oh, my god. >> oh, my god. >> hold on. oh, my god. this is bad. >> the latest quake comes one day of after a 6.4 magnitude tremor shook the same area. no deaths or serious injuries reported yet. they are still digging out, rick, as they try to figure out exactly what happened out there. >> yeah, they certainly are. in fact, with that 6.4 quake we had on july 4th, generally you see the aftershocks be less severe in strength. we saw the opposite of this. happens about 10% of the time. we could also see a 10% chance we could see a...

Magnitude 7 usually has aftershocks that last for years. >> so expectations is that it will continue on. >> karen maginnis is joining us now. and when you hear lucy jones say there that these aftershocks could last for year, you can imagine what that means to people dealing with this right now. and your maps have been showing us and revealing to us just the numerous -- the aftershocks, so many you can't even count them. >> you're absolutely right. one by one and then there is another shock and we've been counting how many 4.0 plus, 5.0 plus. the 5s you can feel. 6s you can definitely feel. the...

So if you're just joining us, the scientists themselves are trying to understand this. we're trying to keep up. what happened yesterday in the southern california area was actually called a fore shock. of 6.4 magnitude followed by after shock of 5.0. which led to the 7.1 actual earthquake. that happened there earlier today. and there have been a whole series of after shocks in the whole area ever since. these are part of the same sequence as they have described. basically it's happening on a series of fault lines. several of them. that are spreading adding to the situation. it's not terribly u...