Active as you people in california, no and quake like this 5. 1 is not particularly uncommon, even though it does wake everyone, uh, gets their attention, okay . And real quick before we have to let you go here, don, should we be preparing for another bigger one in the minutes to come . Or do you have any indication that this 5. 1 was the big event . Well theres no way to predict earthquakes, so i cant tell you yes or no, a larger one is going to come but typically the way earthquakes work is youll have the main shock and then the following earthquakes in the same spot will be smaller and therefore we call them aftershocks, but a small percentage of times who will have a larger quake later. Okay isnt there to predict that so we cant say no, it wont happen, but usually the largest in the series happens first. Okay don blakeman, a geophysicist at the usgs, joining us from golden, colorado. Thank you so much for joining us here is were bringing this breaking News Coverage to our viewers.
Theres only about a week left. Because of that critical deadline an australian ship carrying a u. S. Pinger locater and underseas equipment leaves for the search zone shortly and is expected to arrive there thursday. Meantime in malaysia, families of those on board flight 370 voiced their frustrations with the way the crisis was being handled during an emotional news conference. Paula hancock is in kuala lumpur. It was an impassioned press conference in this kuala lumpur hotel. The chinese relatives of the passengers of mh 370 arrived hours earlier at the airport sunday morning. They said they had to come to malaysia because they werent getting the answers they wanted from beijing. They were wearing tshirts that read pray for mh 370, pray for return safely. We want evidence, want the truth, want our families saying they are sad and desperate. His relatives said we want malaysia to apologize for inform is a that caused confusion which delayed the Search Mission and we want the malaysian
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