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 epicenter. You can see the broken bottles on the floor. The shelves there rattled inten intensely. Anita vogel is reporting live with more. Julie, thats right, the earthquake struck at 10 33 local time in los angeles near the city of ridge c
and the automatic system allows it to go in. for a short time, there were two alerts, one from us, one from the tsunami warning center. when we recognized it was there, we cleaned it up. that was not getting rid of an earthquake, by the way. i heard the conspiracy theorists about that it s just that we cleaned it up. just to clarify additionally, we had been just talking about two faults and so forth. that s still the case. right. we re not [question inaudible] not until we get a geologist on the ground. occasionally there s reports about faults that we don t know about. we know a lot of faults in this area. if you look again at the picture it s disappeared. the if we could reload the page, i would guess. look up in that area. there s lots of little marks. it s one of the areas with a dense distribution of mass
there will be a magnitude 5 today. i did that on northridge. people said they predicted the earthquake. i said i predicted rain in hawaii, too. when the probabilities are this high, you know, then you can say yes, there will probably be a magnitude 5 today. it s not the time of any particular event. there s nothing. if somebody is giving out a time, they re not basing it on science. okay? that s probably what we ve got about the aftershocks. the geologists haven t gotten out. we don t have a report on that. besides, you noticed two aftershocks showed up. i just saw the two red dots that showed up here. this type of behavior is relatively common. back in 1987, we had two magnitude 6s on conjugate
this morning s earthquake? most come without very much warning. at least with the currents understanding of how they work. even the largest ones will often come out of really nowhere in terms of a short-term precursor. we know which areas of faults are active. we know that they have probabilities of earthquakes occurring. but we don t always know when the earthquakes are imminent. there s a shake alert l.a. app. apparently some people in los angeles residents are wondering if the app actually failed. we re going to listen now and go back to dr. lucy jones with cal tech. let s listen. we re just getting an update about this morning s earthquake. searles valley earthquake, near ridgecrest.
last two hours. we also have locations on some of them. that s where we were trying to get up this map here. it s interesting. it does look like we might be seeing two different faults. yeah, if you would to that. so the main shock was in the middle at the intersection between those two strands. so we think the main fault was rupturing down towards the southwest, which would have focused the energy towards ridge crest. then there s also a second fault that seems to have been activated going up to the northwest. again, this area that is not completely surprising. look at the little black lines in there. there s a bunch of them. this is an area with a lot of little faults in a complex area moving apart. it does suggest that ridgecrest