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Magnitude earthquake of 7 or 7.9 about 15 a year. if this gets reassigned to the usgs 8 or higher that would be something that does not occur on a typical annual average. this is what is called a shake map. i want to show you just where we are. this is the himalayas. inda, nepal. katmandu, the capital of nepal. and the epicenter, just about 81 kilometers north and west. this yellow line here, this is depicting the area where we saw the most intense shaking of this earthquake. and i'm also going to talk about mt. everest, because there have been reports that avalanches have occurred thanks to t...

And that can oftentimes, more often than not, result in significant damage. in fact, the class in tellers of the earthquake intensity, this was considered already a major, major earthquake from the u.s. geological survey if it was reassessed to be an 8 or higher on the richter scale, that would be considered a great earthquake. something that only happens about one time a year. unfortunately, this has happened in a very populated part of the world. and the pictures that are streaming in on social media and from reporters on the ground show significant damage. we already have reports of fatalit...

In fact, only 62 miles from iquique here. the wave actually hit iquique in 20 minutes, and in some spots, even less than that. we know a wave was generated out into the ocean as well, but most of the energy along the larger part of the wave was right here very close to the epicenter. the shaking -- in fact, look at this here for a second -- the shaking strong to very strong. this yellow, if you go to the shake map of the southern california earthquake that hit over the weekend, almost the exact same shaking, but that was only a 5.1. but it happened right under los angeles or la habra. that's w...

Three days ago. this is a great quake. we did not have a great quake in california. we were down here. but let me show you that same shake map for california. we had the same colors right here because it was right under that area of los angeles. so this is the quake, it's the same shaking as they saw down here, but you have to assume that the buildings in los angeles have been retrofitted, with a little better quality structure than we have down in chile. here's what happened, here's why it's significant. this is a subduction zone. as you see they go under, go under, one doesn't want to go und...

it's not clear if he'll attend the hearing. one person who will is deborah. she says she hopes manson will be there. >> i think that he needs to look into our eyes, victim's eyes and see the pain that he's caused. i think that is something that is essential to his coming to peace, perhaps before he passes. as you said, this is probably going to be his last parole hearing. >> we are monitoring the hearing in california and will bring developments as they happen. in a couple hours, we are going to hear from trayvon martin's parents. they are expected to speak at a news conference. atto...