Happening in Southern California here for the next couple hours. Theres still reports of damage coming in. Julie banderas has that and all of the days news as we take a live look at washington d. C. Ahead of the big celebration. We begin with breaking news. An earthquake rattling Southern California and parts of nevada this afternoon. Im Julie Banderas in for shepard smith. Happy fourth to you. Emergency crews saying theyre getting dozens of calls ranging from reports of injuries to fires. Officials with the national Gee Logic Survey say it lasted about 60 seconds. Listen. I can feel it shaking. It was intense. Take a look at this video
from a liquor store in ridge crest. This is the first of many videos youll see pouring in today. This is near the epicenter. You can see the broken bottles on the floor. The shelves there rattled inten intensely. Anita vogel is reporting live with more. Julie, thats right, the earthquake struck at 10 33 local time in los angeles near the city of ridge c
if it s on the southern segment, we would have a lot of strong after shocks up to four minutes. from 6.4 near ridge crest, in between the see sierras and the mojave, i felt it, in southwest l.a. county, i felt slow-rolling shaking. it lasts 20 seconds. based on what we know, that means it s coming from a distant earthquake. sure enough it was. people were stressed that they couldn t get on the usgs website. there s so many people trying to get information right away. when you have millions all of a sudden try to visit a website, it can t handle it too well. it affects millions all at once sometimes. so peace of mind comes from you knowing what to do and how to stay safe. in california, most people in
faults. the way it works. if i m pushing in this way, i can move out here or out here. we call it conjugate faulting. it s a common feature. we ll just have to see. we re two hours into this sequence. we ll see how it develops. what about the shake alert app? have you gotten any closer to understand something. yeah, give an update about that. maybe a little bit of misunderstanding or miscommunication. the system worked as designed. so an alert was sent out by the u.s. geological survey. the app or the city of l.a. is set up with various thresholds. the first threshold is a magnitude 5 earthquake or greater in l.a. county. it will send out an alert. this earthquake was outside l.a.