Happening in Southern California here for the next couple hours. Theres still reports of damage coming in. Julie banderas has that and all of the days news as we take a live look at washington d. C. Ahead of the big celebration. We begin with breaking news. An earthquake rattling Southern California and parts of nevada this afternoon. Im Julie Banderas in for shepard smith. Happy fourth to you. Emergency crews saying theyre getting dozens of calls ranging from reports of injuries to fires. Officials with the national Gee Logic Survey say it lasted about 60 seconds. Listen. I can feel it shaking. It was intense. Take a look at this video
from a liquor store in ridge crest. This is the first of many videos youll see pouring in today. This is near the epicenter. You can see the broken bottles on the floor. The shelves there rattled inten intensely. Anita vogel is reporting live with more. Julie, thats right, the earthquake struck at 10 33 local time in los angeles near the city of ridge c
and the automatic system allows it to go in. for a short time, there were two alerts, one from us, one from the tsunami warning center. when we recognized it was there, we cleaned it up. that was not getting rid of an earthquake, by the way. i heard the conspiracy theorists about that it s just that we cleaned it up. just to clarify additionally, we had been just talking about two faults and so forth. that s still the case. right. we re not [question inaudible] not until we get a geologist on the ground. occasionally there s reports about faults that we don t know about. we know a lot of faults in this area. if you look again at the picture it s disappeared. the if we could reload the page, i would guess. look up in that area. there s lots of little marks. it s one of the areas with a dense distribution of mass
there will be a magnitude 5 today. i did that on northridge. people said they predicted the earthquake. i said i predicted rain in hawaii, too. when the probabilities are this high, you know, then you can say yes, there will probably be a magnitude 5 today. it s not the time of any particular event. there s nothing. if somebody is giving out a time, they re not basing it on science. okay? that s probably what we ve got about the aftershocks. the geologists haven t gotten out. we don t have a report on that. besides, you noticed two aftershocks showed up. i just saw the two red dots that showed up here. this type of behavior is relatively common. back in 1987, we had two magnitude 6s on conjugate
california, what we know, we re looking at stats like you re more likely to be injured in a car accident on a daily basis than an earthquake. but the problem in california is injury and economic disruption. we re seeing that with some of the events infolding right now in ridge crest where the shaking was intense, around that area. a strong severe kind of shaking. dr. lucy jones talked about how we should not be surprised by this but some people might be because it s been a very quiet time. the last earthquake of this magnitude was 1994. california has not experienced the level of earthquakes that they have in the past. if these aftershocks come in and somebody feels that rolling, thunderous feeling and they re inside, what should you do? drop, cover and hold on.
to remind you that if you have been experiencing earthquakes for the last 20 years in southern california, you have been experiencing an extremely quiet time in california history. the last time we had an earthquake in southern california above magnitude 6 was 1999. the previous decade had had about eight magnitude 6s. this has been an extremely quiet abnormal time. this type of earthquake is much more normal. now, we re also hearing from the san bernardino county fire department that they re receiving reports of multiple buildings with minor cracks, broken water mains, power lines down, rock slides, varying degrees of damage. some power outages. cal tech says they did get a 48 second warning here in los angeles.