Nine Miles Deep News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Channel islands here. so a 5.3. trace gallagher, did you feel it out there? >> we felt it good. lasted about ten seconds or so. felt like a good earthquake. 5.0 is what it first came out of the usgs and upgraded to 5.3. if you drew a line off the coast of malibu, that's where it was. nine miles deep. not really deep but not really shallow. the depth is important. the deeper they are, the more widespread they are felt. the shallower they are, the more damage they cause. this was felt not only here. we're on the east side of santa monica, about four miles from the coast. we felt it good here but...

Most have been from 4.0 to around 5.3. but we can have many more. still energy locked in to the crest here that needs to escape. so here's the second one. 7.3. nine miles deep. that's shallow. you feel the shaking much more. just like the first one, the depth is pretty much the same. the usgs based on the strength and population gives us a 35% chance for the tragic news that 100 to 1,000 lives could be lost like we saw with the first quake we're going to see the number unfortunately rise. here is a map, kathmandu right here in the center of your screen this is where the shaking was felt to the...