area, there s bakersfield, ridge crest. this is our main quake at 6.4. it s a larger dot of red. i m counting now, one, thrwo, three, four, five, six, seven, eight shocks. this could go on for hours, days, even possibly weeks. let s hope the energy is being released now is this is thefore shock that follows. all those after shocks, tom seder, thank you so much. we ll come back to you as we continue this coverage here. i ve got a seismologist with me now and you are in l.a. let me ask you the first question which is did you feel it? i was actually driving through central l.a. on the way to the airport to pick up my husband so i did not feel a thing although on the radio they were instantly having talked
medical emergency and of fires. current county rescue is out there as we speak, brooke. i m just thinking about carolyn. you just have to remember to breathe through it all. sarah snider, thank you very much. meteorologist tom seder, i m curious if you re in ridgecrest like she was at this assisted facility place and you have no power and you are still feeling these after shocks, and is it in the 90s? no air-conditioning. yeah, that s true. i would be really concerned about the smell of gas. i m sure there s going to be an unbelievable amount of calls, brooke, to 911. just the fright. you think you re smelling gas, you may not even smell it. you ve got toget out of there if you know how to turn it off. 6.4 at 10:33 there was one before this at 10:05 that was
right now, just a tropical storm looks a lot like our first named storm, alberto, which developed in the same area off the coast of the yucatan. feels like it was such a long time ago. all right. tom seder, thank you so much. we ll be right back. when you re looking for answers, it s good to have help. because the right information, at the right time, may make all the difference. at humana, we know that s especially true when you re looking for a medicare
we re keeping our eyes on a new tropical storm forming in the caribbean. tropical storm michael is expected to be a hurricane by the time it makes landfall along the gulf coast this week. cnn meteorologist tom seder joining me right now. tom? well, fredricka, just mother nature s way of reminding us, the hurricane season does not end until the end of november. this storm system at noon today was named michael, now a tropical storm, not moving anywhere, it is stationary. it is going to feed on the very warm waters. currently just south of cancun, cozumel, hurricane hunters finding wind gusts over 60 miles per hour. a northerly movement is expected to, again, start to take its place over the next 12 to 24 hours. i think by wednesday morning, give or take a few hours around maybe 10:00, 11:00 a.m., we could have a category 1 landfall. that would be anywhere between say pensacola, for tt walton beach, destin. my concern is after landfall, even though it is a category 1,
two of mother nature s most destructive forces appear to be on a collision course in the pacific basin. after dodging rocks spewing from the kilauea volcano, hurricane hector is turning towards hawaii. let s get to meteorologist tom seder in the weather center. believe it or not, it happens more often than we think. the ring of fire, thousands of volcanos around the pacific, 1991 in the philippines, a typhoon moved over while a volcano was erupting. we re not going to have to worry about that, thank goodness, but hector is a category 4