still fairly sizeable. japan has a different measurement, it measures how much the ground shakes and this was level five, five on a scale of 1-7 was level five, five on a scale of 1 7 so quite a significant tremor by japanese standards. officials had warned it was likely to be more aftershocks because the last big earthquake was in 2011 so a lot of pent up energy and quite a high likelihood of lots of tremors following on from this big earthquake, the 7.6 magnitude. thank ou so earthquake, the 7.6 magnitude. thank you so much earthquake, the 7.6 magnitude. thank you so much for earthquake, the 7.6 magnitude. thank you so much for bringing earthquake, the 7.6 magnitude. thank you so much for bringing us earthquake, the 7.6 magnitude. thank you so much for bringing us the latest. we ve been hearing that japan is prone to earthquakes so how does it stay resilient? to discuss, i m joined now by ziggy lubkowski, he s an earthquake engineer and seismic skills leader at engineering f
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can you hear me? yes. i think we we re having trouble. i m not sure if you can hear me. we re having trouble hearing you. while we get your connection fixed i want to go to kiteny, if i can. can you hear me? i can hear you. all right. i m going to ask you to do a little bit of manesh s job and help us with some of the reporting in that what you have seen as a structural engineer being there to do the job of figuring out how to deal with the structural issues from the first quake, what are you seeing as a result of this second quake? well, i think it s shocking to everyone, and i was in earthquake and around maybe 3:00 p.m. or so and the ground started shaking. i was in the office and being an structural earthquake engineer i knew it was an aftershock and i needed to stay still. everybody ran out to the street
the parlor room, which is really a conference room that used to serve as a dining room for the press secretary. and we began to feel motion in the building and i personally thought it might have been the traffic, something like that. but it was clear it was an earthquake. i ve been in earthquakes a lot. i m an earthquake engineer. most people decided to get under the table. which was absolutely the right response. i tried to sit and feel the motions carefully, because i can tell a. bit about an earthquake from the motions. did things begin to move in the room itself? were you able to see, for example, the chandelier or pictures moving? there was some movement. certainly very clearly felt in the room itself, it was actually the passing of two waves. the earthquake was distant enough to separate the compression wave and shear wave. the compression came by, strongly felt. you get a little die-down and then the shear wave,
need folks to leave. i ve been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washington, d.c. wolf, i m sure you ll be talking about this in the situation room later today. we certainly will. it s an extraordinary and unusual situation. it hasn t just been in washington. it s been in virginia. it s been in maryland. up in new york, north carolina, ohio, michigan. they felt it all over the eastern part of the united states. the epicenter much closer to richmond, virginia. mineral, virginia. about 87 or so miles outside of washington, d.c. we re following what s going on very
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