Seconds. We stayed under the table until the shaking stopped. I said well be okay. Were starting to get the initial video and pictures. Obviously everybody is posting things. That were seeing from the effects of that tremor. What were seeing is an impressive fire. This is not from the yesterday. This is from now. This is from a im waiting to get the location. It maybe ridge crest, california. Where alex it is ridge crest. Confirmation. You might be looking at video that we sent in. Were working on cell phones and were pitch back. Its a very impressive explosion. What appears to be a house fire. I know yesterday authorities told us this were several, numerous loose and broken gas pipelines. Thats always a danger. Sure. We certainly saw out of the
restaurant and everyone was able to get out. We headed back to the neighborhood that we have been in earlier today. The neighborhood that was more affected by thursdays quake. A number of mobile homes and Trailer Homes there. A couple people sc
Very shallow. They felt this all the way down to mexico. They have felt this in las vegas. You would feel a 7. 1 magnitude and everyone is heightened alert. And to say that these aftershocks are going to occur for years is very unnerving to people who wont even sleep in their own homes. Karen joining us from the cnn weather center. Well speak again very soon. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We continue our live coverage of the tremor that was felt about two, 2 1 2 hours ago in california. A followup to thursdays tremor which we now know was a fore shock. Thursday was a 6. 4 earthquake in ridgecrest, california. Friday saw a 7. 1 earthquake. That is five times bigger than what we saw on thursday. Were getting all reactions from our teams on the ground, from sarah sidner, our metrologist. I want to speak to the owners of a Super 8 Motel in ridgecrest. Thank you for joining us. What did you experience . Caller i was checking a customer and i was at the front desk. And we had this lit
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People take photos of a damaged wine tasting room after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Napa, Calif., in August 2014, along a fault line believed to be the northern extension of the Calaveras Fault. File Photo by David Yee/UPI | License Photo
April 19 (UPI) A new forecasting model suggests an uptick in the frequency of magnitude 4 earthquakes along certain faults can predict large earthquake events of magnitude 6.7 or larger.
A few years ago, while studying seismic patterns along California s most active fault lines, a team of researchers led by Boston College seismologist John Ebel identified several faults that hosted an average of at least 0.5 magnitude 4 earthquakes per year from 1997 to 2016.
things if we can zoom in. this is where that seismic activity has been for the last two-plus days. they are intercepting faults. this is the little lake fault. and as she describinged activity that s materialized towards china lake. and then there s the intercepting fault which is the airport lake fault. you can see kind of the power has clustered around ridgecrest. the 7.1, that s the main shock. the 6.4, that was a shock this is the underlying structure of the land mass, and it s telling us it s going to pull apart. and when the 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurred, people in los angeles said that lasted for 30 seconds. well, it probably felt like it lasted for 30 seconds because all of that energy, and this one, by the way, is eight times