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Situation. thanks very much. i want to bring in our meteorologist. he's monitoring the earthquake. what are you seeing as far as earthquake is concerned, tom? >> reporter: we'll probably start to see earthquakes occurring. you usually have one that's 8.1 or higher, 11 days ago, between a 7 and 7.9 there are 15, and we have seen quite a few of these, but this one is still considered shallow. they occur all the time. and we see them many times several hundred miles deep into the ground. but this one 32 miles depth, 7.1, we'll take you there and show you more. when it comes to the u.s., gs, this ...

A depth of 51 kilometers. give or take 32 miles deep. that is relatively deep but not deep enough that it wouldn't cause significant damage especially the closer you are to the epicenter point. here's mexico city and the epicenter. all of the yellow, that's what we call the shake map. those are people in those communities that could feel the earthquake. again here's a look. this epicenter is about 75 miles southeast of mexico city. here's the epicenter and here's mexico city. see all these communities around here that had some type of minor damage. they could feel it. in some cases yes we have...

Look at this. the plate tectonics, it basically parallels with the entire staal it hi region. it's called a subduction front. these are 24 millimeters per year. that's the equivalent of what your fingernails or toenails grow. it gives you a perspective how they come together. this is just enough movement to create so much pressure, eventually, they slide and break and we see earthquakes like this unfold. what you're looking at now is the u.s. geological surveys. kind of a shake map is what this is called. you're going to zoom into the epicenter and give you an indication of who melt the worst ...

The 7.5 magnitude earthquake, again just west of kathmandu. i'm going to step off the screen to talk about the particular region. again, kathmandu is the capital of nepal, in the valley, surrounded by the himalayans. and in many other countries, nepal is not that particularly sustained for earthquakes like this. the reinforcement of buildings in nepal have been of major concern. you can see this is just to the northeast of india, where you can see the outskirts of this shake map, indicating some of the tremors being felt again near the border of nepal and into india, with these tremors still b...

We've had more earth, more ground to really absorb those shock waves, but this shallow of an earthquake, with aftershocks being a concern, ongoing being as far south as even new delhi. and even northern and eastern portions of india. the epicenter of the strongest earthquake, the original earthquake that took place at 11:41 local in nepal, near katmandu, is about 81 kilometers northwest of the capital. but it does appear that area has taken a significant brunt of the damage considering the population density across that rege. is this what's called a shake map. to the green and yellower attribu...