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>> certainly this is a very serious event, and my heart goes out to the people who are affected. this is certainly not an area that has felt earthquakes before. it's a seismojennic area. it's a very large fault zone. but it's a larger earthquake than they've experienced anytime in recent memory. >> how common are these types of quakes of a magnitude of 7.8? >> well, i think the most recent example that you might use for a comparison was not exactly on this fault system but was nearby on a neighboring fault system in turkey was in '99. that was a 7.6. so it's a little bit smaller but has a simi...

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Upper-plate normal faults along forearcs often accumulate slip during > Mw 6 earthquakes. Such normal faults traverse the forearc of the Hellenic Subduction System (HSS) in Greece and are the focus of this study. Here, we use detailed field-mapping and analysis of high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) to study 42 active normal faults on the islands of Kythira and Antikythira in the Aegean Sea. Onshore fault kinematic data are complemented by seabed bathymetry mapping of ten offshore faults that extend along the Kythira-Antikythira Strait (KAS). We find that normal faults in the KA...

More bad news coming, tropical storm grace is formed and could hit haiti and when you dump rain, sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, that's going to make a life or death situation so much worse. >> thank you, patrick. allison, there are two named storms in the frregion, fred an grace. in any way, did storm activity possibly trigger an earthquake like this? >> not even 1% chance. what we want to point out is that grace will have impact on the area in the form of rain. they're going to be cleaning up, having a recovery process. the magnitude 7.0, comparisons are made to the one in 2010. even t...

Potentially more tragic. thank you so much to you both. appreciate it. susan hoff is a s seismologist. what does data tell you about the quake? >> good afternoon. you covered a lot of basic information. it was slightly larger earthquake, significantly part of the west. that made the difference for port-au-prince. shaking was a lot less severe. it appears wasn't too much damage in the capital city. it was the same fault system as the 2010 event so we are looking at data to understand how the fault -- the indications are that the earthquake broke to the west, the rupture was to the west which ...