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Again, we were on our way to a story. Hi, sir. Did you just feel that earthquake we had. Yes. A short time ago. Yeah. Tell us tell us where you were going and what kind of sensation it was for you. Oh, i was in my office down there. I felt a very strong shake. You fet a strong shake. Did you feel the earthquake yesterday. No, yesterday i was in a boat some he didnt feel it. You were on a boat yesterday. Yeah. So today, can you tell us kind of what kind of feeling was it and for you, did it feel like it went on for a long time . It was fairly long. Its like a swinging movement. And its kind of ...

Yards, three or four meters. in this earthquake. you know, it's not nearly as long as the big one in southern california which would be 200 or 300 miles of the san andreas fault system, not just 20 or 30 kilometers. but 7 is as big as anything we've had in the past couple of decades. we have to go back to the '90s and landers earthquake to find the last one close to this big. >> all right. professor john vidale, thank you very much for all that information. we appreciate it. >> good luck. >> thank you. let's go to lester holt, nbc's lester holt who is in santa monica. hi, lester. >> good eveni...

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...