Some of the earthquakes they had eight months ago. Once that comes in and well be able to go through and look a bit better if we have anymore in the way of information. Just to give you a quick glance here Around The World anything from a 6. 6 to 6. 9 weve seen them all year. That is not many earthquakes. Tom, stay with us. Were going to continue our coverage. That is it for me. Im going to hand this over to brook baldwin to continue our coverage of this earthquake thats a 6. 4 in california. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Here we go on this independence day. We continue with this Breaking News out of Southern California. Thank you for being with me. Im brooke baldwin. Talking about this major earthquake. Preliminary reports indicate it was a 6. 4 magnitude quake. And just for perspective for all
of us, those deadly quakes back in 1989 and 1994 they were 6. 9 and 6. 7 respectively. I youve been talking to briana, but you felt the building shake . Not only that, when you looked ou
shock more than 10 kilometers that is significantly closer to this event and would probably have an slightly increased risk on garlock. but keep in mind the san andreas is an active fault so there s also that risk at play. can you describe the repeat activity in the months leading to this quake? we don t have that data right at hand. no, nothing so if you re asking we have had a couple of other swarms in other areas of southern california in recent days. nothing like that was occurring up in this area in the last couple of months. there was a 4.2 just about 30 minutes before the main shock, and that is a classicfo fore