Did you guys notice anybody from the theater leaving . To gate no. We were in view of the theater. Sir, what is your name . To get my name is robert. Tell me what you felt tonigh compared to yesterday morning . Did you feel it also yesterday . Yesterday morning i was lucky. I was at work and i hadnt noticed anything at all until m coworkers or did you feel that and i said feel what. She was like well, we felt this. I said no. And then as i can later my boss called and said hey, can you make sure that there is no leaks , no breaks. I was like sure, of course, bu honestly i didnt notice anything at all. Today it was the same thing. We are glad you are both okay. We thank you for taking some time to talk with us this evening. Have a nice weekend to you both. We want to welcome to you what would normally be the fox news at 11 at 10 00 p. M. We have been on for coverage. Here is the latest. We now have experienced a 7. 1 earthquake that hit at 8 16 p. M tonight that makes yesterdays quake a
southern california. they re has been a second major earthquake. as seven-point one magnitude quake. the epicenter is around ridgecrest, which is the same area where we had that six-poin for magnitude quake that hit on thursday. ridgecrest is made up of a smal community made up of about 30,000 people and we heard from some folks they are a little while ago who said they were just panicked and for a while their power was out. our correspondent jeff paul is on the phone with us now. jeff, you were telling us power was out for you as well and you were charging your phone with your car battery. that s what happens in situations like this. you have got a very powerful earthquake and the power is usually one of the first things to go out. ruptured gas line, we don t kno if that s the cause of this fir that we saw, but almost minutes after we felt the very powerful earthquake you could hear the
we thank you for taking some time to talk with us this evening. have a nice weekend to you both. we want to welcome to you what would normally be the fox news at 11 at 10:00 p.m. we have been on for coverage. here is the latest. we now have experienced a 7.1 earthquake that hit at 8:16 p.m tonight that makes yesterday s quake a pre- or a4 shock to today s quake which is now considered the main shock. this happened right in ridgecrest. the very same epicenter near ridgecrest, so wherever you are in you felt it, imagine what th folks in ridgecrest are going through tonight as they felt no a 7.1 quake. we saw footage of the one fires or reports of the fire there were trying to get more information. we keep noting the difference i times of the quake sprayed the quake tonight at night, the quake yesterday morning in the
because there was some structural damage that they wer finding as they kind of inspected the building as well as some of the sprinkler system what first alerted them to the damage because they were dripping so they thought let s remove the patients and take care of these folks. they moved them outside to a mobile shelter and another hospital. that was from yesterday s quake so you can imagine that shape the hospital is in now after this seven-point one. i m actually looking at the earthquake map right here and i our area, in that area, i am seeing another quake just three minutes ago a 2.9 aftershock, over and ridgecrest another one just four minutes ago at 3.0. another one just about ten minutes ago commit so right now i m looking at it and i m counting just in the last may b
a four shock to today s and the probability of another one happening one happen while we were standing here talking, so little smaller but there could be more, there could be more that are bigger, it s just unclear at this point because i so hard to predict. she said this was a strike slip earthquake. we re not moving up were not moving down, but the ground is moving sideways expanding the ground, the california lien her is being expanded by these earthquakes that are strike slick earthquakes in nature. looking at the data they say they can t estimate when any aftershocks will occur, but they just left out of your takeout and analyze some of the data and promised to have an update for us within the next half-hour after they get a chance to look at some of that data and come back and give us more information. we should note that they wer saying yesterday that this quak was the strongest quake in southern california in 20 years and now you have yesterday