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Right now it looks like you guy just had a 3.5 magnitude aftershock and you keep having these aftershocks. what do they feel like? >> every once in a while you will sort of sit there and feel their shaking in the vehicle youll check around with the people around you and say, did you feel that? did you feel that clicks we are certainly feeling it here where we are at the local hospital. this has become sort of the staging area where youre seein a lot of ambulances show up, firefighters, just whoe...

Daytime. its a whole different situation . >> we just got a briefing from caltech. we expect another briefing soon. our reporter seth women is they are. seth, walk us through some of the key points of this earthquake right now. >> good evening, christine and alex, we are in the seismology lab here at caltech where we just got an update from doctor lucy this eiseman is here on th 7.1 magnitude earthquake that w felt today. this was actually the quake tha happened today was the big event . possibl...

Huge batch of darkness where th entire street is outcome of the street lights are out. thankfully the traffic signals are still working so were not seeing any major traffic jams o car wrecks because of that, but down certain patches, it is absolutely dark out here. this is about 28,000 is 30,000 people its already dark out here with the lack of streetlights and then on top of that. >> jeff, im going to let you g for one second, standby. were going to jump back into this conference at caltech. >>...

Have we solved everything? absolutely not. and we are beginning to look at what we need to do to address the issues. we can see right now with our eyes. and how we address the issues with after inspection what we need to do. >> the big question on a lot of peoples minds now is whats next? what are you hearing and learning and what are you preparing for? >> well, if you listen to the wides people at cal tech and other geologist around, they tell us to be prepared for other large aftershocks. we m...

When were talking about earthquake rates, whats happening on the faults, i didnt include that. >> yesterday you talked about theres no way to predict. >> thats right, all of this is random and it is something people dont like. on top of that random distribution, we add earthquake triggering. so when we talk about a random distribution, that is as sequences. this is still all one sequence for all that weve had a couple thousand earthquakes at this point. the account was about 1500 before the 7.1 ...

After a 6.4 quake hit the region yesterday. us geological survey and psychologists at caltech predicted another quake could happen. pulmonary reports of another large earthquake in southern california. we are working to gather more details. san francisco grappling with a history some view as offensive and bigoted and that leads to the real news roundup. this he will spend $600,000 to cover and 83-year-old mural of george washington at a public school. the board of education voted to paint over t...

Shock is just about here, a remote part of the base. i dont have a place name to give it a name. we are going to call the name of the fault it is on, until we confirm which fault ruptured. caltech is the definitive southern california advisement network operator and us geological survey works in partnership with them in pasadena. the website you want is s cs and.org. also earthquakes.usgs.gov. they will you interact, zoom in, zoom out, satellite imagery and you get the information. >> in front o...

Situation, but what everybody is waiting for are the aftershocks. there have been many, many so far, and we are warned that there will be many more. seismologists down at cal tech say that there is an 80% probability of a 5.0 aftershock or greater. now, this quake was felt as far away as vegas and the coast, los angeles. now, people in l.a. were wondering why their early warning app didnt trigger. well, because by the time it got to l.a., this was just felt as a 4.5 and the threshold to trigger ...

>> julie: hundreds of aftershocks rumbling throughout southern california after the strongest earthquake in 20 years hit the area. it rattled folks from los angeles to las vegas. the epicenter of the 6.4 quake was near ridgecrest, california. about 100 miles northeast of l.a. one of todays after shocks reached 5.4 on the scale. a seismologist at cal tech says theres been an unusually quiet period since a 7.1 earthquake struck in the area back in 1999. >> the previous decade had had about eight m...

Here at the hospital. the hospital was evacuated to assess damage. there are some cracks and walls around here. there are some cracks in the roads as well, but what everybody is waiting for are the aftershocks. there was more than 30 aftershocks in the first hour after that 6.4 hit and we are told by seismologists at cal tech that they expect an 80% probability for an aftershock greater than 5.0. could be today, could be tomorrow, could be next week. that is what authorities are preparing for. a...