♪ >> A weather note now a series of earthquakes struck along the New Madrid fought line this week raising some concern that a potentially catastrophic earthquake.

I follow our Christine Todd in talk to Doctor Seth Carpenter, a seismologist at the Kentucky Geological Survey to find out what's shaking.

>> Doctor Seth Carpenter, so with the activity that we saw in the New Madrid fault earlier this week, just have a lot of people wondering, are we getting closer to the big one that we've all been talking about?

What your perspective on this?

>> My perspective is that the recent activity in their New Madrid does not necessarily indicate anything about whether or not we are nearing the large earthquake.

The New Madrid zone is are reducing earthquakes.

And we think those are things happen on the same faults that ruptured more than 200 years ago to create that barge.

Devastating sequence earthquakes.

These are rights.

I will say they're happening a little more frequently than we would normally see.

If I sort of look at size missing here across a longer period of time.

But what we've also seen through longer periods of time is that there are reasonable first an activity.

>> So as a psychologist.

>> This raised an eyebrow for you or use or take it in stride.

>> But I raise an eyebrow honestly and made it means that I want to.

Attention to what's happening in the in the zone.

You know, we start seeing larger plates that we have seen.

It's worthy of a more in-depth investigation.

>> And so if this really isn't a predict that predictive factor of what we might see, that we just always need to be ready right?

So how do we prepare for a potential devastating earthquake?

>> All right.

The question.

So is there a good resource available online getting ready in earthquake country, some of the publications or call them.

They have good advice on what to do in the event to start shaking.

There are things that people can do to repair their home ports.

But in a moment, if something were to happen and you haven't prepared sort of a general general good idea is to get under a table that you can protect news the table to protect your body and then hold onto a lead at the table so that it doesn't move away from you during any storm.

Same thing.

>> Okay.

So we're just going to hope for the best and prepare for the worst right?

>> About it or not, though, it's it's a good idea to know what to do.

It's going to take it happens.

>> Yes, well, thank you so much, Doctor Seth Carpenter for your time.

>> Thank you for that question.

>> And thank you, Christy gotten the last catastrophic earthquakes along the New Madrid says seismic zone devastated the region and 18 11 in 18, 12.

Those are the quakes were estimated to be between magnitude 7, 8, They caused widespread destruction and dramatically alter the