00:00Okay, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that is at a shallow depth, which this is,
00:07it depends on where it is in the world.
00:09For example, here in a mountainous area with populations kind of all around it,
00:16it's going to cause some damage, mainly because the energy has nowhere else to go except up into the building.
00:23And so that is the case that we're seeing now.
00:27So you said that because it's shallow, that energy sort of explodes up into the buildings,
00:31the buildings shake, and we are seeing some of the damage right now from Rye,
00:35the Italian broadcaster there, of some of the stones that have come off some of these beautiful old buildings.
00:43Can you talk to us about how prevalent earthquakes are in that area?
00:49Yes. So earthquakes in this area do happen from time to time,
00:53but at this size of magnitude, the 6.2 and also, you know, a little less than or a little
00:59greater than,
01:00they don't happen too often.
01:02There was a magnitude 6 kind of 300 kilometers away in 2012,
01:09and of course we heard earlier that there was the magnitude 6.3 in 2009,
01:15just 40 kilometers away from this event.
01:18and also in 1997, on the other side of where this earthquake happened,
01:23there was, sorry, excuse me, a magnitude 6.0 that occurred that killed 11 people.
01:29And this earthquake is actually in the middle of where those two earthquakes were.
01:34So it's kind of in a gap area is what we call it.
01:37Yeah, I want to ask you, Jessica, about the 6.3,
01:40because that's the most recent one that we can all recall.
01:42That was devastating.
01:44It was the deadliest earthquake in Italy since 1980, La Chila earthquake.
01:49What made that one so deadly?
01:53Was it that it was so much bigger?
01:566.3 doesn't sound much bigger than a 6.2.
01:59So with that one, it was in an area where people were living,
02:03and so people were just there when it occurred.
02:08Let me look real quick to see what time it was.
02:10It was in the evening when it occurred,
02:13or actually, no, it was early morning.
02:15Actually, very similar to when this one occurred.
02:17It was about 3.30 in the morning then as well.
02:20So people would have been in their home, sleeping.
02:22So people are at home, they're sleeping,
02:24they're not kind of aware of what's going on when the shaking does happen,
02:27and so that may cause a little delay for them to get into a place
02:31where they won't be injured.
02:33So people are at home, they're not going to be injured.
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