Look carefully the sound system swaying back and forth and officials did just postpone the remaining games for the night you can see people reacting year on their phones. Take a lot of people just couldnt believe it given the fact just happened. Lawrence karnow has been also following. This and warm so what what do we know a know it was kind thing we were just about to go on with some breaking news of just really what turned out to be a pretty shocked a very strong earthquake and then moments later we get the major earthquake rolling through of 6. 9 but whats curious i think about this earthquake is the death. It is so extremely shallow less than halfamile the death expected on that earthquake. So that means that all that energy being exposed to write to the surface at the earthquakes are very deep. Its a process where you call it anyway. She where you can actually loosened that energy by the time it gets to the surface. This earthquake is not that kind of earthquake. It is so shallow all that energy just striking interrupting right toward the surface. Theres going to be major damage and of course they already sustained a whole lot of damage with a 6. 4. Just the other day so theyve got now all that damage on top of that certainly things where we can from that previous earthquake of 6. 4 then you get a magnitude of 6. 9 that is extremely dangerous major earthquake effect in Southern California but look at all the red. These are all the earthquakes that have just occurred within the last hour and you can see that rain earthquakes all along this area. This will believed to possibly be a long the little lake fall, so its not the senator asphalt that were commonly hear about in california but a smaller fall system. But certainly capable of producing major earthquakes and that was the concern we have that 6. 4 earthquake. Do we know that was the major quake them was that actually a foreshock are pretty shocked to the major event. Well now we know a major earthquake even larger has now struck Southern California. Near the ridge crest area of 6. 9. Theyve seen about 14 earthquake since them of over 3, 4, on the magnitude scale certainly a long way to go in a very scary night in Southern California guys back to you. Well be checking back with you in the meantime the east bay, theres a Murder Investigation in pacheco the Contra Costa Sheriffs Office says a 29 yearold man died there this afternoon, yeah and witnesses telling our gail o and that the man apparently collapsed right in front of a Bowling Alley. She joins us live at the scene and has the latest on this investigation, gayle. Vicki right behind me is where the victim was found we do you know the victim is a pitch aco resident. We dont know what led to the death of that there was a trail of blood that spans across the street. Very shocking. I mean you dont really hear about this kind of thing on this neighborhood at all. Know we have the casino here. But its usually a good crowd. We air is usually pretty peterlee hear about things like that happening. Terry shocking to hear that im surprised normally this is a very safe. City very safe environment deputies continue to search for clues in the death of a man and to friday afternoon at one point the area to take a boulevard between center avenue and Second Avenue was closed. As investigators comb through the scene for evidence. The Contra Costa CountySheriffs Office have not released many details but an employee at this Bowling Alley who did not want to be on camera tells us the victim collapsed in front of the building just after noon, the employees says there was the lead with senior bowlers the employee also says he noticed on Surveillance Video a man coming up to the entrance of the building and collapsed in front of the bar door deputies blocked off surrounding areas. All afternoon, cleaning up the scene. Now back here live scene has been cleared a few hours ago and crews are cleaning out the blood stains on the sidewalk but up. Deputies do say that the and the victim each other theres no word on any arrest live in the jayco gayle ong kron 4 news. Gail i were going to go back to our breaking news at the top of the hour, a 6. 9 earthquake in Southern California time were looking at the usgs theyve been answering questions, lets listen and after still talking about it. And i guess not that just wrapped up, but again this was initially described as a 7. 1 quake downgraded to a 6. 9 but that is still like a huge quake and again this is happening and a very a rural area centrally in e Mojave Desert but a shallow quake, a lawrence was talking about this only about a half mile deep. So the potential for great damage. Fortunately it was not in a hiavily a populated area and in the past 1n days there have been 117 quakes of magnitude 3 point oh or greater centered nearby after that 6. 4 earthquake happened yesterday on the last half hour or so we have been getting of people calling in to the newsroom saying that theyve actually felt that quake that 6. 9 quake in ridgecrest Southern California. They felt it all the way here in the bay area in danville milpitas sacramento. Our a Lawrence Karnow has been following this for us and he has the very latest on this shallow quake that was originally reported at 7. 1. Now downgraded to 6 point now a 9 but still a very sizable quake a huge earthquake and weve seen aftershocks after that earthquake is high. As a 5. 5 and that was just 18 minutes ago, but theyve seen numerous, its amazing to watch all those earthquakes all those are just seeing red. Those the earthquakes that actually occurred within this last hour or so weve this magnitude before california. Were lucky. This is not downtown los angeles. This is a catastrophic type of earthquake. Just because it is so shallow all that energy from that earthquake literally explodes to the surface when its only a half a mile or so you can suspect that theres going to be major damage in that area to roads to buildings to a telephone poles, you name it. And it was felt all around the state all the way down into mexico there been reports all the way up in the sacramento, las vegas feeling it that far away that gives you an idea of the strength and power of this major earthquake that has hit Southern California course remember just yesterday we were wondering what exactly was going to happen had we actually had the major quake at 6. 4. Now we have the answer to that it appears the 6. 9 is that major quake it would be hard to imagine a larger quake, but certainly that is not out of the realm of possibility i same seismologist would tell you theyre still a percentage where there could be actually a larger earthquake after this not saying that thats going to happen. But theres a percentage or chance that that could actually happen still so. This is a developing situation. Were a long way from this being over these earthquakes will continue until the ground completely settles long those fault lines there. But certainly were a long way from being done guys. And getting a lot of calls in to the newsroom. Theyre still coming in. But interesting that people in the bay area. I mean milpitas and were we talk about what Vicki Las Vegas and people are feeling this over a very wide area. We had someone in brent would just send a photograph of their pool, the water, the pull water was so was undulating. So it just actually transferring all the way 360 some miles here to the bay area how is that possible. Yet. In the end that amazing, i mean thats just the energy thats being transferred youre not seeing the ground actually traveling but that energy is traveling right through. All the earth and the surface of course itll affect different quite differently if you live in a sandy area may affect your area a little bit differently liver. Rocky area, youll be affected differently by that earthquake, but. They continue to see these aftershocks, im just looking at the latest right now we just had a 4. 1 that was 11 minutes ago that is in the little lake area right near the cereals valley right near ridgecrest so they continue to see those earthquakes just kind of piling up and im more theyre almost too many to count on look im looking at them right now, and its unbelievable to see the series of earthquakes looks like aftershocks after that major earthquake and by the way. Im now looking at the usgs feed and they may have just upgraded that earthquake to a 7. 1. Thats right now seeing on the very latest reading there so theyre going to triangulate the scientists the seismologist are going to take a look at the earthquake from different aspects in and around where that major earthquake happened and theyre going to triangulate and figure out the exact magnitude of that earthquake. So that number may shift here within the next couple days the way it shifted doesnt matter. This is a major earthquake. Theres going to be major damage is a major story for Southern California. Were looking at here you talk this is that shot i was talking into danville not grant would but theres that cool in danville a viewer sent it to shaking all the way what more than 300 miles away so a lawrence made reference to the fact that this is a very shallow earthquake unusually shallow Something Like a half half a mile so that would then distribute that energy far and wide as opposed to you know deeper into the into the er and if youre just joining us again this is a major quake were hearing a 6. 9 were hearing 7. 1. It to hit about 00 19pm tonight, centered only about 11 miles from ridgecrest and again thats same area where 6. 4 quake hit yesterday on the 4th of july and it was felt downtown in a rolling motion was it seemed to last some people said 3040 seconds and again were now hearing that a people over a very wide area felt this vegas danville. Across much of a Southern California. Yeah, it is mark carpenter had reported a in our 8 oclock news that Nba Summer League game between the knicks and the pelicans that has been postponed. Because of the earthquake people really felt it there so. That is on hold as well. I know lawrence is a efferding you know trying to get more information for us obviously this is preliminary this happened just to in the last hour or so so we havent gotten damage reports and. I suppose if theres a Silver Lining we could say that it in the Mojave Desert there is not a highly populated area. I shutter to imagine you know was this to speculate if this was in a highly populated area pretty much the middle of nowhere the Mojave Desert to near the town of ridgecrest it could that we know that it caused some damage but vickies right were really not getting any detailed reports of damage or injuries but at this point that would probably be surprising because again this just happened about just before 00 20pm tonight in the peculiar thing is weve thought yesterdays quake right the 6. 4 quake, good. Said was the biggest to hit this region in 2020 years. They were describing usgs has said that there would be a series of aftershocks and they were somewhere in the range of 5 point o this one superseded the 6. 4 now are saying its 7. 1. So theyre describing this is a pre quake. In lawrence we want offer a fair shot and so. Bear with me here for a moment is there a possibility that there could be something even larger looming that this could be also this could be a foreshock it would it would be hard to imagine that we could see a larger earthquake on those fat systems but. Thats certainly a possibility i mean there are the seismologists will tell you that there is a percentage chance specially going out work for the next 24 hours that they could in fact see a larger earthquake. So a lot of unknowns still there right now although we know is they they they have been affected by a major earthquake you can see the shaking on the cam there in southern calif rnia. As that hit so. It is going to affect much of that area they just had major damage from the 6. 4 just yesterday. But now theyve had a 7. 1 on top of that and im looking now and it appears it has been upgraded again to that 7. 1 from the 6. 9. Im seeing that on a couple of different to us. Yes sites right now, but theyre going get those official numbers here within the next 24 hours as to the exact magnitude but what we can say is that was a major quake. It was extremely shallow which makes that incredibly dangerous all that energy just erupting to the surface and causing massive amounts of damage i can imagine right now all the roads that are damaged that are twisted any a rail Railway Lines probably twisted metal theyre going to shut down all those areas of any type of a transportation just to make sure that they can check those roads checking the airfields in that location to make sure that there things that are so severely damaged that they can land remove any vehicles in there. This is a this is an incredible earthquake. Something that you dont see that often but certainly weve already seen it tonight and it will be very very interesting to see some of the live shots tomorrow to see what kind of damage they sustained. A lot of video but again we keep talking about the because its one of the things we have where the this is in danville is obviously shaken. We saw few moments ago, hollywood a camera overlooking the hollywood area and cameras shaking and interesting that just a few hours ago seismologist and said there were. 1700 aftershocks after the 6. 4 quake for this 7 and we will obviously yes, and they said that they were hoping that that meant the chances of another big one or diminishing and i guess the answer is no it. It did not mean that because now were talking 7. 1. So lawrence. Let me ask you again you just in terms of the proximity here. We know the San Andreas Fault is a big fault line runs said. It through california. But this is not on that fall. I know this this appears possibly be on the little lake fall system is kind of a smaller fall. But certainly a lot of these faults run through california that we dont even know about and sometimes we dont discover that theres an actual fault there until we have an earthquake. Now we didnt know that this fall was in that location, capable of producing large earthquakes. I think they would probably tell you they were surprised that they saw something larger taan what they had yesterday but certainly thats what weve seen tonight. Youre looking at live pictures although at this moment i dont see much but weve been looking at live pictures over los angeles a few minutes ago cameras shaking overlooking the hollywood area planned only imagine if were feeling it here and they felt it as far as far away as las vegas in mexico. What is going on in los angeles right now. Yeah and again the second major quake in less than 2 days one rocked buildings across the southern part of california. An ad during a adding a lot more jitters to an already very nervous region people have got to be astonished that this thing is this is the shot overlooking hollywood. Yeah and then as we mention too that a Summer League game that uh is still postponed um you know we had some shots of that there was kind of in the dark but it was showing the overhead scoreboard. At the thomas and mack center that was swaying they not officials are elected to delay the game and have the teams just leave the floor. Ah there it is right now the yeah everybody can you imagine what its like to be in there. All right weve got another News Congress see us or now the 5. 4 aftershock this morning. Extended that fall what we saw from the main shock from the set of the force from the 6. 4. The 5. 4 extended a bit to the northwest and the 7. 1 x seems if extended even farther to the northwest. So the fault is growing. Were up sure to peace in the first earthquake. Were actually a bit more on the 5. 4 this rupturing more now. It is moving towards the away from the metropolitan areas far as we can tell and a 5 chance this will go for it right every its this is another earthquake, everyone has a chance. Im trying to think if weve ever seen a situation with a 6. 4 7 and then something even bigger and i cant think of one. Not that it is impossible that i i cant give you an example where its happened before. We knew we had a for sharks to a lot of other earthquakes. The landers earthquake the which is 7. 3. 2 months earlier there was a 6. 1 called the joshua tree earthquake thats a far enough apart that we dont usually use the word for shock we call it a pre shock. There was a 3. 8 a couple of hours before the 7. 3. In 1987, the superstition hells earthquake, 6. 6 was preceded the day before by a 6. 2. So this is thats why we keep on saying one in 20 chance. Well, this is the 20. Want talk about the 6, 4 yesterday and how it relates to the 7 what which was the main point which is the by definition because the 7. 1 is the largest we give it the name main shock. So yesterday or an hour ago we were calling the 6. 4 the main shock. It is now had. Aftershock thats bigger than itself. And so we changed the name and to 6. 4 is now a 4 shock and that really large aftershock has become the main shock. Those names for shock main shock aftershock. Our semantic there are tools for trying to describe whats going on. But when you have a sequence going on every earthquake makes another earthquake more likely and thats what were seeing right here and youre already having aftershocks can you talk about how many hoping. Well all right so just look right down here in the lower part since the 7. 1 were only seeing basically the force and 5 showing up. Weve 1, 2, 3, 5. 7. Ok so we have an earthquake that already begun up north its just slightly to the northwest of the main shock. Early Warning System is saying 5. 7 with 26 seconds till it gets here. The one this was a 5 to 4. 9. We felt so this is assuming that the magnitude isnt really miss estimated my guest will be will feel this is a comes through in about in 10 or 2 in 10 say that we expect this magnitude of throughout the rest of the evening. Well yet the largest aftershock is likely to be a 6. Way to go and a 3rd are there. It is. The levels of it was less than i saw i