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The main shock is just about here. its in a remote part of the base. i dont have a place name to give it a name right now. were not going to call the name of the fault that its on until we get eyes on that hopefully tomorrow. well confirm which fault ruptured. as to information source, caltech is the definitive southern california seismic network operator and u.s. geological survey, works in partnership with them in padres. t pasadena. you want southern california seismic network.org. earthquake...

Magnitude bounce around just a little thats just normal so the epicenter of the main shock 6.4 where intersects is about here. i dont know have a base name to give it right now. were not going to call the name of the fault until we get eyes on that hopefully tomorrow beil confirm which -- well confirm which fault ruptures. information source, cal tech is the definitive seismic operator and we work in partnership with them in pasadena. the web side scsn.org southern california seismic network.org...

>> and we should mention too, caltech is going to have a news conference coming up at about 9:30. well get more information from them. we just had dr. lucy jones on our 4:00 news talking about it. this was expected but hetty, youre never ready for it when it hits especially like that, so strong that were seeing the lights weighing here. it almost makes you feel a little bit dizzy in some cases. did you feel anything like that? >> yeah, kathy, absolutely. i was telling troy that since yesterdays ...

Southern california. that after a 6.4 quake hit the region yesterday. caltech predicted another quick could very well happen. a preliminary reports of another large earthquake hitting southern california, we are working together more details. san francisco is grappling with a history that some view as offensive and bigoted and that leads to tonights the real news roundup. the city will spend $600,000 to cover in 83-year-old mural of george washington in a local public school. that san francisco ...

To tell our viewers joining us right now what is happening, we just had a 6.9 magnitude quake hitting just after 8:00 p.m. local time in southern california. right now, we know, we are getting word from county officials that there have been multiple injuries and multiple fires, probably due to gas lines breaking because of the intense shaking. seismologists that you were just listening to in caltech and usgs, basically telling us as of yesterday, we were going to expect a pretty high magnitude q...

They can present quite a hazard. its not always known faults that are a possibility of producing earthquakes like this. so i dont think ive had an exact fault line that has been identified yet. i think cal tech is probably still working on trying to identify the fault here. just imagine this took place in the small town of richquest. population about 20,000. if it happened 120 miles to the west, where los angeles is located, what would this have meant? >> caller: it would have been a different s...

There are dealing with right now. what a situation. theyre saying somewhere if the ballpark of every 30 seconds the earth is shaking for them out there. talk about rattling your nerves and seeing something above you thats loose and youre trying to fix your house back up. look at this. 20 million pem saw some type of shaking and 5 million people saw moderate shaking and it continues here and according to dr. lucy from cal tech she said this could go on, and i agree with her, this could go on for ...

>> this is again, the casino ou towards the palm springs area actually a little further east than that. you can see massive swaying there. those fixtures looking almost more like swings at the playground. rocking back-and-forth from house high those ceilings are, would say those are swinging probably four or 5 feet in each direction. that is massive shaking going o there. >> you can see the waiters they are quickly making their way down the stairs to get off the second floor and tried to try t g...

>> just some brief reports. earlier tonight, for example, there was a hospital that had been inspected and was actually found to be structurally okay. that was after the 6.4. the engineers are there they have looked at some buildings -- >> we are listening live to a press conference from the usgs and caltech. seismologists giving us an update on the pretty big earthquake, the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that just hit southern california. in the same vicinity, the same area as the 6.4 magnitude quak...

Account of what happened to you this evening. brent clark palmer, a resident of ridgecrest, thanks. i want to good become to our meteorologist karen maginnis. she joins us from the cnn weather center. she is pulling together all the information we have on this. karen? >> yes. as we heard in the briefing from caltech, there is about a 10% likelihood we could see an earthquake of 7-plus magnitude. before, when it was a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, there was about a 5% chance. so we have more than dou...