Very shallow. They felt this all the way down to mexico. They have felt this in las vegas. You would feel a 7. 1 magnitude and everyone is heightened alert. And to say that these aftershocks are going to occur for years is very unnerving to people who wont even sleep in their own homes. Karen joining us from the cnn weather center. Well speak again very soon. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We continue our live coverage of the tremor that was felt about two, 2 1 2 hours ago in california. A followup to thursdays tremor which we now know was a fore shock. Thursday was a 6. 4 earthquake in ridgecrest, california. Friday saw a 7. 1 earthquake. That is five times bigger than what we saw on thursday. Were getting all reactions from our teams on the ground, from sarah sidner, our metrologist. I want to speak to the owners of a Super 8 Motel in ridgecrest. Thank you for joining us. What did you experience . Caller i was checking a customer and i was at the front desk. And we had this lit
Oes personnel and also our command staff from the county side. As far as other operations, we do have people coming to work back from the stations. And at the current moment we have adequate staffing and personnel. We have been experiencing some aftershocks. Nothing new reported. But currently were waiting to stand by for that and waiting to transition to the structural grid search. Thats all we have at this point. Thank you. Thank you very much, chief mitchell. Now wed like to give our attention to a subject matter expert. We have ken hedna here from usgs to speak with us. I want to say first of all thanks to the navy base for allowing us access there today and also for the city for their support here. The mayor, chief of police. We had just had briefings as we came out of the field today, we being myself and Janice Hernandez from the California Geological survey. With support from the california highway patrol, we were able to do reconnaissance from surface rupture. When an earthquak