an you ve been reporting more than 80 since this hit this morning. we are told by seismologists at cal tex there s a percentage of an afterhost of 5.0 or more. as sara said ner has been mentioning before, we re about 1250 miles away from los angeles here, this town of about 30,000 people, lower buildings, no high rises we ve been told there are reports of damage in one hotel at least, but there s also another smaller town, which is down on a dry lakebed, actually closer to the actual epicenter
been followed by at least 159 aftershocks. a state of emergency has been declared in ridgecrest, which is the desert town which is near the quake s epicenter. i want to do go sara sidner, she s been following this in los angeles from the moment it happened. bring us up to speed. this many aftershocks, this is elevated. reporter: yeah, it s significant. there are always aftershocks after this kind of a moderately large earthquake. 6.4 is nothing to sneeze after. there were a couple hours fights wes know of the president hospital evacuated about 15 patients, and there are people calling in with injuries. away from the epicenter less so. here in los angeles where you have a population of more than 10 million people, no injuries, no damage that has been reported at this point. we all, though, certainly felt
a minute before you constitutionally feel the water that it is coming and to take cover. in this particular instance you had a 6.4. here in last it was somewhere around a 4.5 according to seismologists. that was not enough to trigger the app. the settingings are they have ton a 5 or higher, now they have decided, after hearing from a lot of people, they wants to know any , and we hear you, and we are changing the settings so it will alert you if it s a 5 magnitude or less. brianna? thank you, sara. cnn s nick watt has just arrived on sea at ridgecrest. tell us what you re seeing, knick? well e. were outside the