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
moving in to china lake? the southwest striking one goes from china lake down to ridge crest. the northwest is going up through the china lake. i know that there has been trouble tries to get geologists onto pace. have you made progress? our geologists have contacted the na vi. and are able to get on the base. with some limited access. that was prior to tonight s event. so presumably i would expect there maybe further damage on the naval base. we don t know yet. i haven t gotten reports. my suspicion is the gee olss will get out there quickly and look at potential rupture. the other following on what dr. jones was saying. when we have events that where a main shock becomes a fore shock, typically the triggering is relatively close.
there was absolutely the sense of urgency people needed to leave their homes. they were concerned. that you could see another after shock or there could be individual damage. or something falling over. a desire to help neighbors get out and get to some kind of safety. that s what people need to do. get to safety. you re right to point out obviously the structural viability of the homes especially in ridge crest is of paramount importance. we ll come back to you before long. i want to go back so sarah in l.a. we now know that today that yesterday was just a fore shock for today. and today s quake was eleven times stronger than felt yesterday. yeah, i want to give you perspective. for those folks and people around the world saw what happened in 1994 here.
underneath that. find something so that you have something to cover your head because a lot of injuries come from things falling from above. they may be small, but getting hit in the head with something and getting a cut, it tends to bleed quite a bit. they ve had more than 1,000 aftershocks since the initial event, the fore shock of 6.4. there are going to be aftershocks, not just today, tomorrow, the next day, but as you heard the seismologists say, this can go on for weeks, months, even years. usually the aftershocks get smaller over time. you ll start noticing that they re impactful. that is if we re not in another event where this is a 1 in 20 chance that this also is a fore shock. let us hope it is not. something bigger than that, we re talking about much more damage. each time it goes up, we re
my expectation is ridge crest is having a difficult time tonight. it is a fore shock. after shock becomes bigger than the main shock. we change the name. everything before the 7.1 would be considered a fore shock to this. this is an earthquake sequence. it will be ongoing. it is cloerly a very energetic system. sequence. so there s no reason to think that we can t have more large earthquakes. the largest after shock on average to a 7.1 would be a magnitude 6. another 6.0 similar to yesterday would not be surprising to anybody. we don t have a lot more information. you can see on the map where the locations of the earthquake and after shock are, the blue are all earthquakes that happened before the 7.1.