mom, and i couldn t. i was like, just holding on to the ground like trying not to open up. not to open up. california s governor requested a presidential emergency declaration to get federal assistance to the state in that area. the new quake is notably larger than the one the previous day. the tremor after 8:00 p.m. last night local time, if you look at the strength, five times bigger, releasing 11 times more energy. they happened about seven miles apart from each other. both close to the desert city of ridgecrest. people felt it 150 miles away at least in los angeles, all the way out to las vegas. sacramento, farm north, as well as phoenix in a different state. aftershocks continue, and experts say there s a 96% chance of another magnitude five earthquake in the next few days. let s go to joe fryer in ridgecrest for us now. and when we were following this after the first quake here, joe,
so stay with us. we have more ahead on this earthquake. this has been followed by dozens and dozens of aftershocks. when is the shaking going to end? it s going to be a while. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i m a car thief. what?! i m here to steal your car because, well, that s my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?!
22 million people felt something, but no one felt the top of the list, which is an extreme. no one felt violent shaking or very strong. all this is lines here, these are newer faults. there are many more smaller ones, but dr. lucy jones told us a couple interesting things, he is ridge 2k7 crest where 30,000 people live. the way this is fracturing here, whens initial energy was released, it was five seconds of energy, you at that on to the reverberations and waving moving outward, the problem is it store what we call the it was about a ten-mile rip along the fault.
they were telling you the way this earthquake happened all the way to the coast we re going to try to reestablish nick s signal there. we re having some transmission problems. i want to go what are you tracking, tom? well, this has been a pretty interesting day. obviously a 6.4 magnitude is pretty strong so it is more shallow, the more shaking. at 10:05 we had a 4.0, that s considered an aftershock.
areas to the northwest this is a close are region around death valley national park one more thing. the ridgecrest is here. it goes all the way out to where there s some weak shaking in fresno, l.a., long beach, all the way out to las vegas, but 42,000 feeling very strong shaking. that is a concern, but 21 million felt light shaking. that s the low frequency energy, the rolling frequency, those are the ones that move out far, and give you that rolling motion. we re not out of this just yet. is it possible we could have a quake that s stronger than the 6.4? yes, we see this sometimes around the globe evening though you had a foreshock, if there s enough energy still in there, we