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Shock. i know when i saw that page come through this morning i was like i haven't seen -- valley in a while. >> and there is a slight chance we could have an event larger than what we're calling the main shock right now. >> that's about 5% chance for every earthquake. and like any other earthquake this probably has about a 1 in 20 chance this is not the largest event within the sequence. >> can you spell your name real quick? >> r-o-b, and last name graves graves. >> we're getting some feedback from viewers of the alert system and they say in los angeles it did not work. >> it worked. it was n...

Come falling off which is why building codes have changed over the years. there could be according to the seismologists there are after shocks people are experiencing. and frankly, it's scary for people to go through this. you have no control over this. i do want to mention one more thing. i know i need to hurry, but there is something called a shake alert and i had downloaded it as soon as i found about it. the mayor here came up with an idea everyone should have an app and if there's a way to alert people even 5 or 10 seconds ahead of a big event, it did not go off on my phone. in other word...

Fault that runs from mexico up to northern california is long overdue for a big one. even though there's no way to pinpoint a major quake, seismologists do have the ability to forecast them by paying attention to small and moderate alerts that happen next to major fault lines. small quakes raise the risk of unleashing a big quake. for the past decade california and oregon have been building an early warning detection system, known as shake alert, but it's only halfway done. the idea is to use 1500 monitoring stations up and down the west coast to give scientists enough information that they ca...