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hello, and everyone, welcome to cnn newsroom. right now there is a desperate search and rescue operation under way across turkey and syria after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the two countries before dawn. the death toll now tops 2,700 and will like will keep rising as crews dig through the rubble. more than 120 aftershocks hit after the earthquake, including one almost as powerful as the earthquake itself. buildings crumbled to the ground. people feared trapped inside. others having to run for their lives. rescuers having to reach those who are stuck under piles of concrete and debris, like this boy in northern syria. you can just make him out buried under the wreckage. thankfully he was pulled the safety. rescuers also pulling this little girl from the debris in another syrian city. the u.s. and other countries are offering whatever help they can. and president biden said he has directed his team to provide any and all assistance immediately. cnn s ....
Happening in Southern California here for the next couple hours. Theres still reports of damage coming in. Julie banderas has that and all of the days news as we take a live look at washington d. C. Ahead of the big celebration. We begin with breaking news. An earthquake rattling Southern California and parts of nevada this afternoon. Im Julie Banderas in for shepard smith. Happy fourth to you. Emergency crews saying theyre getting dozens of calls ranging from reports of injuries to fires. Officials with the national Gee Logic Survey say it lasted about 60 seconds. Listen. I can feel it shaking. It was intense. Take a look at this video
from a liquor store in ridge crest. This is the first of many videos youll see pouring in today. This is near the epice ....
The magnitude is determined by the fault, in this case 200 kilometers for the first and 100 for the second. we noever know what the time wil be, but the fact it s going to happen in sense will be a certainty. aftershocks can be just as devastating. and knowing the second came out at 7.5, can we expect more aftershocks? and what impact does this have on search and rescue crews? right, search and rescue crews really have to take this extra risk into account. we like to say, when you have a lot of earthquakes you tend to have a lot offers. when you have an active aftershock sequence, which is what we re seeing here, it will continue to be more active. i m sure they re going to see more magnitude 6s. there s a possibility for a 7. the fault on which it happened is quite long, and there can be ....
By something larger. it s possible, and i would think that there s probably other, at least magnitude 5s and very well have magnitude 6s, and it s an ongoing sequence happening right now. can you describe what a 7.1 magnitude earthquake feels like for people who are on the ground? it depends on where you are. for those of us here in los angeles, it was a really long rolling motion with no impact. you hear things rattling and you hear the doors and the walls creaking and nothing gets thrown over. if you were in ridgecrest, it would involve essentially any unsecured objects being thrown through the air. things are crashing around you and it s why we recommend it s a much better thing to do to try to get runder a table because moving puts you in the path of those flying objects. ....
Faults. so before i m going to talk about an unknown fault, i need a geologist to say how does this line up with what we know about. is it relevant not to us. i think it s a psychological issue. if it s an unknown fault, we didn t know! makes it scarier. the reality is we have a lot of little faults that never get named because they re too small until you get an earthquake. was this one particularly strong for that area? this earthquake is the large nest the little lake area in the last century. but in general, the owens valley, the gee logic structures up there have had earthquakes like this. mammoth historically has had dozens of magnitude 6s. ....