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Stories of survival, kate. i am here in the heart of a distribution center where hundreds of volunteers are prepping goods to get to the affected areas, and it is the stories of the survival that are pushing them to continue to keep working, and it is the erdogan government that they feel he did not respond quickly enough, and the country was not as prepared as it should be considering it is sitting in a fault zone. it has bhad absolutely earthquakes before, but more and more grief as bodies are pulled from the rubble, and the families want answers and help, kate. you have hundreds of thousand...

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Is shaking. and it's the shaking that will ultimately lead to the catastrophic destruction, buildings falling down, et cetera. >> and can you tell us about some of the bigger quakes that the world has seen most recently? those of 8 and above in terms of magnitude. >> i know that there have not been many in this region recently. as i mentioned, this '99 earthquake that was similar that was in a fault zone a little further to the north of this area. this is not a fault zone that we typically expect really, really big earthquakes. we do expect earthquakes. it's what's called a transform plate bou...

>> 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...