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A 6.4, the talked about the building moving and floor rippling so they do have damage. the first report of damage we re getting in the ridge crest area about 150 miles from los angeles. i also want to tell you this, we have just spoken to someone in las vegas. that s about 269 miles away from los angeles, they felt this earthquake all the way in las vegas. as you know, the further away you get from the epicenter the lesser effect you re going to get from an earthquake. but the fact they felt it all the way in las vegas, they felt a shake or tremor is significant here. again a 6.4 is a muderately strong aek, it can do damage. and now we re hearing there is damage in ridge crest according to one hotelier there. for people who have never experienced this it s unlike ....
That ll come out along with the possibility of injuries based on the population and where that shaking was taking place. in a few more minutes we should have much more information right now. but i ve never seen the usgs site get crammed like this in eight years. we certainly are. i will tell you twitter is alight with people there in california reporting what they felt. i want to get back to sarah schneider, what can you tell us? reporter: there was a hotel in rich crest we were able to talk to. they had some damage, saw the floors rippling. so we re starting to hear some of what is happening where this earthquake was epicentered. ....
Magnitude earthquake there in the ridgeview area 150 miles or so from here in los angeles. sara, stick with me, if you will, as you keep appear eye on this. i want to bring in our meteorologist tom sater in our weather center. this is in ridgecrest, the epicenter. correct. tell us a little about this, what you re looking at with the 6.4 and what some of the different factors are that could either give more or less damage in a situation like this. well, to be quite honest with you, brianna, we cover earthquakes it seems like every week on our sister network, cnn international. this is the very first time i can remember in about eight years where after an earthquake, you can t get the information from the usgs. really? their website is clogged. so we have little data. we will get it, it s just been slow and they have reamped and redid their website. what we know is pretty much between las vegas and bakersfie bakersfield. this is very close to death valley national park. ....
Strongly. it can create damage. even a 6.4, downgraded a bit from when they first looked at these numbers which was a 6.6. it depends on what kind of earthquake it was, whether it was back and forth or up and down. those can really create a lot of damage. it just depends on exactly how shallow, for example, this was. but we certainly felt it. i can tell you i ve been here about five years. this is the first time i ve actually felt an earthquake here in los angeles that was strong enough to move this building, which is about 15 floors, move it significantly where we could all really feel it. we knew immediately we were having an earthquake right now. it lasted for probably 10 to be 15 seconds here where you can feel it. time actually is a big deal. if this goes on for, for example, a minute, it can create a lot more damage, especially at the epicenter. it didn t feel that way here but we do not yet know exactly what it felt like and how long it lasted. this is now being called a 6.4 ....
Population there about 27,000 people would have felt this one for sure since we felt it all the way here and they felt it 200 plus miles away in las vegas. i want to reiterate we have heard now a report coming into us of damage from a hotelier in ridge crist. and we will be getting some pictures i assure you. and we ll be heading to that area shortly as well. we should mention, 6.4. and now we ve had an after shock of about 4.0 according to usgs. and part of the issue too is the damage that will be assessed afterwards even if god forbid there s not going to be damage like we saw obviously in something like north ridge. those quakes are few and far between thank goodness, but when you do have quakes of this size there s issues about the structural integrity of buildings, of homes, things that ....