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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 attribute that to the circles you see here. you can also see the epicenter of where the earthquake actually ....
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 that and you can see the shake map extends towards mt. everest, climbers and hikers across that region. we ve had tweets rolling in from ....
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 fatalities as well. what you re looking at here is what is called a shake map. it gives you an indication of the epicenter. this is northwest of kathmandu. this is nepal, india. it gives you the idea of the intensity or the shaking that took place. i know it s difficult to see, that shading of yellow ....
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 why it shook so much there in southern california, where here, the shake was truly offshore. this was, though, a great quake, 8.0 or more magnitude is a great quake. let me show you, kind of dive on down to what this means here for us. what this wave could have done is made a large wave progressing away from the shore. the one that hit the shore happened very quickly, but almost 13 to 14 hours to get ....
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 under anymore and it pops back up. when it pops back up, that pushes the water above it high, half a meter high. it s the meter push-up that you ....