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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...

Now thought to be a fore shock to the one we just had, that 7.1 from last night. kern county officials were already responding to that one, already had their hands full with one that. not to mention the hundreds upon hundreds of aftershocks that we are all now experiencing following these -- both of these quakes. the usgs says there's been about a hundred following that 7.1, that they will get more dramatic. there's insome good news. we've been speaking to dr. lucy jones. she's the incredible authority on all of this, has incredible experience covering all of these things. i think the voice of...

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...

To obviously a lot in the past 24 hours has been saying that this is more common. it's much more likely that every 10 to 20 years or so, you will have an earthquake that's over a 6.0. for people here, for people in my generation, we have never felt anything like that. yeah, this is much more of the norm. that may be some comfortable news to hear. she spoke a little bit more about that, but also we spoke to the police chief in ridgecrest who was talking about the fact that you might want to start stocking up on supplies if you're near the area, near the epicenter, because they're trying to get ...

Feelable. some them are one or twolp magnitude, not the three and four that you can feel. ridgecrest felt the severe ñi shocking. searles valley right at a 7 around a four or five magnitude. if that earthquake was under l.a. it would have felt like a four even though it was so far away it was a seven, it didn't feel like a seven in l.a. magnitude aftershocks probably a six. one of those and we go down from here. butñr the difference is exponential. this is what people don't understand. the difference between a 6.0jf d a 7.0 for power is [2a times.t( it's ten times. but it's the power that we...