Seconds. We stayed under the table until the shaking stopped. I said well be okay. Were starting to get the initial video and pictures. Obviously everybody is posting things. That were seeing from the effects of that tremor. What were seeing is an impressive fire. This is not from the yesterday. This is from now. This is from a im waiting to get the location. It maybe ridge crest, california. Where alex it is ridge crest. Confirmation. You might be looking at video that we sent in. Were working on cell phones and were pitch back. Its a very impressive explosion. What appears to be a house fire. I know yesterday authorities told us this were several, numerous loose and broken gas pipelines. Thats always a danger. Sure. We certainly saw out of the
restaurant and everyone was able to get out. We headed back to the neighborhood that we have been in earlier today. The neighborhood that was more affected by thursdays quake. A number of mobile homes and Trailer Homes there. A couple people sc
how close would that be to the epicenter? are they tied together. the epicenter is only the place where the fault started to move. it s not the location of the earthquake. the earthquake happened over the whole surface. if i were going to tear this, i can t do this. what i would do is start a tear here and rip down this way. and that s the epicenter. this is the fault surface. the earthquake is happening over this whole fault. we think that what s happening here is a fault about 25 miles long. we started at the end the part that hadn t broken before the 7.1. potentially ruptured in both directions. about 80% of earthquakes are unilateral rupture in one direction and 20% in both directions. there was a slip of six inches. can they grow? there s on the southwest
striking fault. down here and it s not at all clear that part moved in the 7.1. do you know what kind of earthquake it was yet? what do you mean by kind of earthquake. strike slit. that s something we can get from the seismic records. just to follow on with that the event yesterday was left lateral. strike slip. when released some compression on what we think is the fault that ruptured this evening in the 7.1. this that presumably is a right lateral strike slip. with it. basically motion horizonly. and again with this magnitude and this length, the expectation of having surface rupture is much greater. and by being able to go out and measure it. in a 7.1 i m thinking back to landers. there was up to i don t know ten feet of displacement.
this earthquake? no. there was a magnitude 7 and a half in 1872. there have been sixes. there s a whole series in nevada. 1915 and 1954. they were 7s. series of earthquakes with several events within them. six to seven. in 1980, four magnitude 6.5s in about ten days. this part of california is characterized by the groups of earthquakes there might be several that end up larger the first is often not the biggest. knowing which is the biggest meaning wait until we see we aren t getting another one. what was the last time we had something sizable in garland? prehistoric. this extending 25 miles. approximate guess off looking at the figures. north western fault is that
we won t know until it does or doesn t happen. there s a small percentage. yeah. 17 kilometers. the epicenter is deeper. but we have geologists in the field. we haven t got reports back. that s the ten mile. it s ten miles down. where the one yesterday was more like six or seven. however, a bigger earthquake also involves a larger fault. i probably this is coming to the surface. and is there what you re worried about is are we going to trigger something outside of the region. probably not. why? we re too far away. the ability to trigger another earthquake is spatially defined. the most likely place to trigger it is at the same fault. as you go away a distance it s