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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100329:13:48:00

reporter: retired geology professor has spent decades studying the fault. it runs right through dorchester. the 1886 quake was one of at least seven to happen here. the frequency of earthquakes we are getting is about every 500 years, on an average. reporter: so it s not a matter of if another powerful quake will rattle charleston, but when. and is the city prepared? charleston mayor joseph riley says quakes are fused into charleston s history and future. we ve made our buildings stronger, so they would more well withstand an earthquake than they did 144 years ago. and then we re poised and ready to get through it and to recover. reporter: the south carolina emergency management division released the results of a study that outlines what could happen today if a 7.3 magnitude

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100327:20:54:00

however, south carolina sits right in the middle of the north american plate. now, there can be some weaknesses within that plate and there is one just north and west of charleston. when pressure builds upon that area, stress builds and the earth moves. his research has shown the 1886 earthquake was one of at least seven quakes to happen here. the frequency of earthquakes we re getting is about every 500 years, on an average. so it s not a matter of the another powerful quake will rattle charleston, but when. and is the city prepared? charleston mayor joseph riley says earthquakes are fused into charleston s history and future. we ve made our buildings stronger so they would more well withstand an earthquake than they did 144 years ago. and then we re poised and ready to get through it and to recover.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100327:23:46:00

seven to happen here. every 500 years on average. reporter: it s not a matter of if another powerful quake will rattle charleston but when, and is the city prepared? charleston mayor joseph riley says earthquakes are fused into charleston s history and future. we ve made our building stronger. so they would more well withstand an earthquake than they did 144 years ago, and then we are placed and ready to get through it, and to recover. reporter: the south carolina emergency management division released the results of a study that outline what s could happen today, if a 7.3 magnitude earthquake were to strike the same area. the report estimates that 900 people would be killed. 800 bridges damped beyond use. 36 million tons of debris generated and total economic losses would reach $0 billion. $20 billion.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161007:14:06:00

is the water that that wind is pushing and when it pushes it against the shore, and it pushes it up the rivers and it pushes it into st. john s and into savannah and tybee, st. simon s, into charleston, those areas can flood easily even without significant wind, just because of rain. and there s a lot of rain coming. this is a very wet storm. later today, we are just about to the parallel of tybee and savannah, then charleston and finally out to sea. but as this storm runs up the coast, it will make a lot of rainfall. significant rainfall, up to ten inches. that concerns me a little bit even with the potential for some sinkholes. that s always a potential when you get so much water in florida and you have an aquifer that s been drawn down a little bit. think about that as you re driving around. if you say that doesn t look right, stop the car and make sure. we will have ten inches of rain from jacksonville all the way north even into almost the upstate of south carolina and the piedmon

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140129:10:38:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140129:10:38:00
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