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Understand -- help us understand, i should say, what people can expect over the next couple of days. >> thousands more aftershocks. now, we're not talking about, victor, good morning, as far as 5.0, 6.0 intensity, those will diminish as far as their intensity and frequency, nevertheless, we're not done with still moving the earth. that's equivalent to 45 hiroshima bombs. that's what we know. and what we don't know, that's key as well. here's the main quake which by the way we thought the 6.4 was. but, no, that was a foreshock. that is a very high number for a foreshock. 7.1, the chances of get...

Yesterday's earthquake but released more than 11 times the amount of energy than yesterday's earthquake. our metrologists are helping me get the terminology on that. we'll come back to you. i want to go to your metrologist right now. what do we need to know at this hour? >> just as sarah quoted dr. jones saying that the aftershocks are going to occur for years. we see this often around the world with the ring of fire where there's a major earthquake or great earthquake. the earthquake or the fore shock that we saw yesterday, that was considered a strong earthquake. this 7.1 magnitude earthquak...

Niece noah. tell me what you heard, tell me what you felt. >> we were walking to the carl's junior to get some food and we -- there was a car guy in a car and his car started shaking and he asked us when we walked by. he was like do you feel it. feel what? then i could see his car moving a lot. oh, we're having an earthquake. >> what went through your mind at that point? all of us experienced yesterday's strong earthquake. now we're hearing that was a 5.0 and a 7.1. >> it's just -- it's a lot of earthquakes happening within two days and then supposedly this morning there was another one that i...

Right now where you can see there, this is a dodgers game at the stadium and you can visibly see it shaking. we understand that yesterday's 6.4 magnitude quake was actually a foreshock followed by a 5.0 followed by tonight's 7.1 earthquake and we also understand there has been a 5.5 aftershock. so let's welcome john vidally, a professor of seismology at usc. he is joining us by the phone right now. can you take us through this sequence of events and describe what they mean? >> at the ontario airport. >> 6.4 yesterday. foreshocks, 5.5 aftershock at 4:00 a.m. this morning and just now, we had th...

Maybe even, you know, you're talking about a 5.0 earthquake. those are extremely likely as we move forward from this. but also speaking to her about just how rare this situation is. and she actually said that in these situations, in about 20 years you should be having an earthquake the magnitude of a 6.0, that it's rare that we've gone so long without it. here's what she said about the situation that we're under right now. listen to this. >> california would expect to have a magnitude 7 once every 15 or 20 years. the last one was 20 years ago. we would expect to have a 6 every three years or s...