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The same fault, same fault system. likely the same shake. there's no alert for a tsunami for alaska, for hawaii, for the united states at all. they don't believe any waves went this direction at all. all the waves went this direction, as the last time it did as well, but probably only a 1 meter or less wave there and they could have that. >> let me go to paula hancock, joining me on the phone. 7.3 magnitude. did you feel this? >> brooke, yes, i did. this certainly was strong enough to wake me up. it was 2:10 in the morning when it hit, and i'm sure it would have woken a fair few people up. it ...

Tokyo. >> recall, nagano is the site of the 1998 winter olympics. it's a 6.6 magnitude quake which is a serious quake for an aftershock. chad is working on getting information. >> it certainly would be an aftershock, along a separate seam or separate part of the fault system still here. it wouldn't be anything other than, you know, looking at 8.9. 8.9 shakes a lot of the world. all the seismographs across the u.s. were shaking yesterday because of the shake on the other side of the globe. >> when you say a separate seam, what -- is that a fault? you mean a separate fault? >> sorry, a separate ...

Frightening. 81% increase in mistakes by the people charged with life or death responsibility of keeping millions of us safe up in the air. here is the cold hard number that goes with that 81% jump. 1,800 errors by air traffic controllers just last year alone. 43 of them described as most likely to cause a mid-air collision between planes. the faa is claiming the rise to be flyers has not increased. they say the huge spike is the result of improved reporting after years of mistakes that were allegedly covered up. computers can routinely spot a lot of the errors and there is now a so-called no ...

American soldiers and american presence as infidels. >> again -- >> true? >> also critical to acknowledge we have at that time u.s. soldiers in the streets to protect iraqi civilians. that's -- i mean, iraq before the surge was just -- >> no one's contesting that yet. >> we put americans in harm's way to stabilize that -- and give a city of 7 million people a chance. that's what was happening. an event like this goes against the entire mission. therefore, yeah. this is a terrible, tragic thing. i won't defend it. the context is critical here. >> i appreciate that. glen, same to you, again. tha...

People think earthquakes in this country, in the u.s., they think california. certainly not the south or the deep south. jacqui jeras kind of went on a study, went on the hunt for answers as it pertains to earthquakes in this country and the history and the future. >> yeah. but we've had so many big ones in other parts of the world and that got us thinking, well, what kind of risks are there here in the u.s. everybody knows most of the quakes happen out west, particularly in california. some of the most powerful earthquakes in u.s. history have actually happened in the u.s. as well as the sout...