7.5, so the larger shaking area is so wide and also the seismic indexis is so wide and also the seismic index is so high around the epicentre area and around the shaking it was 100 kilometres. how was the early warning system in place injapan, how has it affected this in terms of giving the numbers of deaths down? ~ ., ,., of giving the numbers of deaths down? ~ ., , down? well, we re not so sure so far, down? well, we re not so sure so far. but down? well, we re not so sure so far, but the down? well, we re not so sure so far, but the system - down? well, we re not so sure so far, but the system works l so far, but the system works pretty well. but the exception is, unfortunately, the area is very close to the high percentage, because we don t have any time to detect the seismic wave and tested. fortunately that system works well, probably100 fortunately that system works well, probably 100 kilometres away from the epicentre, but
higher. remember back in august, the 6.2 took place. nearly 300 fatalities took place. so 298 fatalities officially. now we look back just four days on the 26th of october and a magnitude 6.1 and 5.5. what we re going to point out here, because the magnitude was less than today s earthquake, we have considering these four shocks, this would be the main earthquake. let s not get lost in the details there. the point is, this is a shallow earthquake and the poe tex for serious damage is there. ten kilometers means there s not much bedrock between the surface of the earth and where it took place. no dampening can really occur from the shaking and the ultimate ripple effect that protrudes out from the center of the shaking area.
130. this is not uncommon. but now if you go from 7.0 which this almost is at 6.9 to 7.9, there are only 17 per year. so you got to think about this. this is a pretty big shake. something else that happens. people don t understand where these numbers come from. tony, if you get a violent shake times a very small area that shakes, that could equal 6.9, or any other number. if you get a very small shaking but a very large area like the entire san andreas fault line hundreds of miles long, that could also equal 6.9, but all you ve done with this is break dishes. what you ve done here is kill people. this is the multiplication that people don t understand. shake times size of shaking equals the number, where shake, little shake, times very big area can equal that same number. put that 6.9 in perspective, this shaking area here was very small. so the shaking to get to 6.9 had