Guys, confirm to my ears is this ridgecrest . It appears to be a house fire. Mayor breeden, this may be one of the five fires you were describing. It is absolutely raging. You see fire on the scene. Can you just give us an update . You say you believe there have been five fires. Youre not entirely sure if theyre under control. I do not know that officially. As i look around me i can see smoke but i cannot see i cannot see other than one, and thats still black smoke. Theres others that im sure that i only know of the report. And you mention as we stay on these images, you mention checking in with an assisted living facility. Did they have power . Is power totally out where you are . In some places its out and others it isnt. Okay. Okay, ridgecrest, california mayor Peggy Breeden you have many more people to talk to on the phone. Thank you so much for jumping on with me and my best to you. Dorothia smith is with me on the phone. And she felt the earthquake in trona, california, 20 miles
Some of the earthquakes they had eight months ago. Once that comes in and well be able to go through and look a bit better if we have anymore in the way of information. Just to give you a quick glance here Around The World anything from a 6. 6 to 6. 9 weve seen them all year. That is not many earthquakes. Tom, stay with us. Were going to continue our coverage. That is it for me. Im going to hand this over to brook baldwin to continue our coverage of this earthquake thats a 6. 4 in california. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Here we go on this independence day. We continue with this Breaking News out of Southern California. Thank you for being with me. Im brooke baldwin. Talking about this major earthquake. Preliminary reports indicate it was a 6. 4 magnitude quake. And just for perspective for all
of us, those deadly quakes back in 1989 and 1994 they were 6. 9 and 6. 7 respectively. I youve been talking to briana, but you felt the building shake . Not only that, when you looked ou
poles were definitely swaying just slightly. but there s no damage that s been reported so far here in los angeles. we are hearing in the san bernardino area there s been potentially rock slides there and some cracks in some buildings there. we need to mention we re about 150 or so miles away from where the epicenter was there in ridgecrest. and i think those in ridgecrest are experiencing a number, at least 58 confirmed after shocks so far. and i think, brooke, to your point every time you speak to someone what do you hear? we re feeling another one. they re coming within seconds of each other. this is natural and what happens with an event this large, a 6.4 earthquake hitting there and an epicenter in and around ridgecrest. now, the after shocks are generally much smaller. we know there was a fore shock according to the reknowned
we have some information. we re still limited with the usgs but it is coming up now in just a moment. 6.4, originally 6.6, that s not unusual to drop. but only 5 miles in-depth. typically around the world a lot of times these will be 100, 200 miles deep. the shallower they are the more shaking stays at the surface. a lot of it has to do with the soil content and the make-up of that. let me move on because that was at 10:33 local time. they ve had significant after shocks. dr. lucy jones is saying this is not along the san andreas fault. this is an area of much smaller faults. and since back in the 80s there used to be a number of smaller quakes in this area that were 5.0 magnitude or higher. however, this is right now we believe the strongest magnitude 6 quake in surn california since 1999 when they had a bit larger
likely. there is about a 1 in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake within the next few days that we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the sequence. it s certain that this area is going to be shaken a lot today and some of those after shocks will probably exceed magnitude 5. so you ve been listening to reknowned seismologist dr. lucy jones. she said there was a 20% chance that a worse one is coming. again, if you re just joining us 6.4 magnitude earthquake, epicenter in the middle of those red circles. ridge crest about 150 miles from los angeles. i m getting tweets from so many of you guys describing what it felt like. sarah snider, just bringing you back in, the word i keep hearing is rolling shaking. when it comes to ridge crest you were reporting when we spoke