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
we are back with the braking news on the fourth of july. i m brooke baldwin. we have been covering this earthquake in southern california epicenter in the middle of the red rings on your screen, ridgecrest, california. sarah snider our correspondent in los angeles. we ve been learning the ridgecrest regional hospital is now being evacuated. reporter: it s the only hospital really for that region. this is significant event. it is being evacuated according to the fire department which just put out an alert it is being evacuated. we should mention it s been around since like the 1940s, so the building may be a bit older than some of the other buildings in the area, but it is being evacuated at this time. the main hospital there in the ridgecrest and surrounding
strike slip motion. how does that information help you? well, obviously if in terms of damage, if you had a pipeline or structure that straddles that fault and it moves sideways, that could be very devastating. i don t know if that s the case here, again. also in terms of the ground shaking that was experienced in the ridgecrest area lucy was talking before how the earthquake started off to the northeast and propagated to the southwest towards ridgecrest. with this type of horizontal motion that actually can be c p amplified. until we get some more definitive information from some folks there i can t be sure about that. but it is a possibility. also we now do a better job of correlating what we get from our instruments with what is recorded in the ground. it used to be we needed the geologists in the field to tell
we should mention this if you look at this, with a 6.4 quasi-, typically there s one aftershock that s 5.4 or greater. sure there could be 100-plus that are 3.4 or higher. so to anyone if they have power in ridgecrest, if you have power and you see a pretty large crack in the plaster or shoot rock or across your ceiling, you may not want to stay for the evening if it s significant. it doesn t mean anything will happen even with a 5.4, but i can t stress this enough, brooke, there could be more damage if we get this aftershock in the next 24 hours. tom, hang with me. i want a quick conversation with sara and then come back to you. sarah si sara sidner, you wer
regions, like i mentioned in italy, a 5.had or greater is possible. how many aftershow, so far? we re over 60. i haven t seen quite a swarm, even in indonesia or japan, but i ve never seen them this many in an hour or two. there s a lot of activity. tom sater, thank you so much. thank you for being with me the last two hours. to all of you on this fourth of july, you know, in covering the 6.4 magnitude quake, epicenter in ridgecrest, and as i spoke with the mayor, she was experiencing a on an aftershock. her takeaway, if you re home, go next doorp, check on your neighbor. i know it s easier said than done, and she said to they, try not to panic. happy fourth of july to all of you watching, but keep it right here with cnn. we re going to continue with