i was up in the close to the nosebleed seats. and we could feel it move. and people sort of look at each other and they say earth wake. and we confirm to each other %-p. we knew because it probably a big one. we didn t know it was going to be bigger than the quake that we thought was going to be the main quake on thursday. it turns out, usgas saying it was a 7.1 magnitude. that is what they re calling it at this time. sometimes these things get downgraded and upgraded. it was downgraded to a 6.9 and back up to a 7.1. that is a significant earthquake people are certainly feeling shaken up. las vegas got quite a shock as well from this earthquake that turns out, the 6.4 was a fore
she said there might be a stronger one than this. this is not part of the fault. that is the fault line. there are all kind of tiny little fault ts across the region. let me go ahead. i ll zoom in across the region and give you a view. we ll zoom in. this is the ridge crest area. a very tine n town. there s a naval air station. near china lake. a huge facility. and yesterday s epicenter occurred just on that particular base. the naval weapons base. this one we re trying to get the exact location. look at the pattern here. hundreds and hundreds of reports of fore shock. everything is now is an after shock. she referenced some of the activity that is more towards the northwest of this epicenter. and thinking maybe this is the part of the fault line that extends further than they had
for a few days. the most likely time is within a day. we saw 30 hours or something. you don t recall of niz earthquakes sequence was a 7.1 was followed by a bigger earth. just not in california with the series. places elsewhere in the world. there was a 8 fore shock to a 9 in chile. in this state. you have never seen anything follow a 7.1? boy, yeah. that doesn t mean we have in nevada. fair field earthquake. the take away here as we have just seen between yesterday and today. quakes that when you say are main shocks can be fore shocks to larger quakes.
somewhere in the fours. so people reacted to it basically by acknowledging it and then laughing about it. and the dodgers, by the way, just kept playing the game. these are events that people feel here, every now and then. but this is significant and i don t want to make light of what has just happened. a 7.1 is a large earthquake. something we haven t seen in the past two decades in southern california or northern california for that matter. this is significant. it happened in an area that is in the mdesert. but the regional hospital there in ridgecrest has worried about worse affects, whether it is an aftershock or fore shock, you could have more structural damage. one of the things that
anticipated. thank you. we can go to paul. he s in ridge crest. what did you feel, what s the situation? just moments before you tossed to me we felt another after shock. you can see down there the flashing lights of fire engines. a house was completely a blaze. i took a still photograph earlier. they did quick work to put it out. this is the two step you get in earthquakes. the ground ruptures and at times you will then see the rupturing of gas lines and fire follow. it s strongly suspected this is one of the gas fires. people around the neighborhood saying this was that previous 6.4 earthquake. it rattled the neighborhood here. when we were driving beginning to wrap up. we were on the the street and everything was rocking and