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Understand -- help us understand, i should say, what people can expect over the next couple of days. >> thousands more aftershocks. now, were not talking about, victor, good morning, as far as 5.0, 6.0 intensity, those will diminish as far as their intensity and frequency, nevertheless, were not done with still moving the earth. thats equivalent to 45 hiroshima bombs. thats what we know. and what we dont know, thats key as well. heres the main quake which by the way we thought the 6.4 was. but, ...

Now thought to be a fore shock to the one we just had, that 7.1 from last night. kern county officials were already responding to that one, already had their hands full with one that. not to mention the hundreds upon hundreds of aftershocks that we are all now experiencing following these -- both of these quakes. the usgs says theres been about a hundred following that 7.1, that they will get more dramatic. theres insome good news. weve been speaking to dr. lucy jones. shes the incredible author...

Maybe even, you know, youre talking about a 5.0 earthquake. those are extremely likely as we move forward from this. but also speaking to her about just how rare this situation is. and she actually said that in these situations, in about 20 years you should be having an earthquake the magnitude of a 6.0, that its rare that weve gone so long without it. heres what she said about the situation that were under right now. listen to this. >> california would expect to have a magnitude 7 once every 15...

To obviously a lot in the past 24 hours has been saying that this is more common. its much more likely that every 10 to 20 years or so, you will have an earthquake thats over a 6.0. for people here, for people in my generation, we have never felt anything like that. yeah, this is much more of the norm. that may be some comfortable news to hear. she spoke a little bit more about that, but also we spoke to the police chief in ridgecrest who was talking about the fact that you might want to start s...

Feelable. some them are one or twolp magnitude, not the three and four that you can feel. ridgecrest felt the severe ñi shocking. searles valley right at a 7 around a four or five magnitude. if that earthquake was under l.a. it would have felt like a four even though it was so far away it was a seven, it didnt feel like a seven in l.a. magnitude aftershocks probably a six. one of those and we go down from here. butñr the difference is exponential. this is what people dont understand. the diffe...

Earth. it was 11 times stronger than the 6.4. this goes up ten times or 32 times on power and strength. a 6.0 to 7 is 32 times stronger. a 7 to 8 is 32 times stronger than the 7. so a 6 to an 8 is 1,024 times stronger and thats the exponential curve that goes on here when you talk about what happens in an earthquake and the magnitude scale. no longer richter scale and we call it the magnitude scale and thats putting it into perspective. >> and aftershocks for up to two years. >> unbelievable. ch...

Good evening. can you hear me? mayor? are you with us? >> it looks like we might be having a little issue with the phone line, something that will happen to a lot of folks is thi continues to progress so while we try to get her back on the line, we can just reiterate tha we are looking at even though the usgs is calling it a normal event, something that we have been lacking over the last 20 years it almost seems like wer getting our 20 years worth all at once bread. >> she was saying we should e...

>> and brian, here we are. so that is good news for what were hearing from your end. this is just outside of los angeles county. in this situation, would you send any crews, preliminary, to help out crews? >> so we have urban search and rescue teams, search dogs, and resources that we will definitely provide, if requested. theres a mutual aid agreement throughout the entire state, where everyone comes to help each other. and if requested, we would send resources up there to assist. >> and brian,...

Perspective of the last time we felt something like this in california. the 6.0 napa quake that was back if 2014 here in southern california, the northridge quake, january 17th, 1994, that was a 6.7? a >> and someone was mentioning, one of the geological earthquakes was talking about how the 6.7 earthquake in northridge was underneath us, which meant it was underneath where a large population lies. we saw the destruction there, obviously, because of where it was. this happens to be in an area th...

Priorities priority. appreciate it. >> all right. thank you. we really appreciate that update. thank you, mr. leader, take care, bye. lets get straight to meteorologist tom sater, whos in the severe weather center. you just heard kevin mccarthy talking about what it feels like there, talking about the fact he cant say whether people are still in danger because of all the aftershocks. >> let me give you an updated number. now we have picked up 73 aftershocks. >> wow. >> it seems like we cover...