Page 160 - Faults News Today

Theyre getting more numerous closer to ridgecrest. so any buildings that are compromised with stress fractures or what have you could go further if we have that 5.4. this tells us, according to dr. lucie jones, the seismologist who was on with us earlier, this is two faults. fault lines do not turn corners. so youre seeing more activity, not just to the northwest, but its sliding more to the town. she also went on to say well be able to tell much more about this earthquake by visually getting an...

Have been ruptured, which can be extremely dangerous. there can be explosions, we have heard from the fire department they are going on emergency calls for potential injuries as well. it was centered there in ridgecrest northeast of here in los angeles, but certainly felt here as well, and about assen hour ago in san bernardino from where the epicenter was, theyre talking about potentially cracks in buildings, some rockslides, and structures that are damaged. this was a very big event that hasnt...

Definitive statement. at this point it is just based on speculation that it be that faults. obviously, this is on a fault, having an name is and it appears , what probably happened here, let me point and you talk. >> lets say were talking about the faults there is one that goes northwest and this one goe northeast. the main shock appears to have occurred on the fault and then ruptured to the southwest so along that faults they are. the motion that we expect on that fault is such that it woul rel...

>> that top, that release, that secondary fault, which in essence participated in the earthquake, but also showing a lot of activity with the aftershock. again, and until we get the geologist in the field i cant confirm that but that is the working hypothesis at this point . >> could you characterize how california geologic weekly in number of faults. >> lots of faults, lots of activity. >> and maybe the answers to the question you may be getting at is this is not unexpected in this area. its no...

It becomes at decision a committee decision balancing al of these different things, what is the best way to go? >> e said theres two possible faults, is that correct? >> theyre are two faults activ right now, we dont know for sure what they are, but you ca see it from the distribution of the aftershocks notice it is an l-shaped. fault dont turn corners that means we have two separate faults the fact that it forms that l. >> when you said was a little part. >> we hypothesized a relationship which...

22 million people felt something, but no one felt the top of the list, which is an extreme. no one felt violent shaking or very strong. all this is lines here, these are newer faults. there are many more smaller ones, but dr. lucy jones told us a couple interesting things, he is ridge 2k7 crest where 30,000 people live. the way this is fracturing here, whens initial energy was released, it was five seconds of energy, you at that on to the reverberations and waving moving outward, the problem is ...

Within us. talking about these great americans who have lived, whether they are artists or inventors, warriors, all of these people. it reminds me actually of calvin coolidge, or great former president who was born in independence day. the theme that he would talk about is be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray. thats what i took from this speech. be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray. but as that is in the military oro invented spirit or in our lust for expansion or artistry or w...

We have some information. were still limited with the usgs but it is coming up now in just a moment. 6.4, originally 6.6, thats not unusual to drop. but only 5 miles in-depth. typically around the world a lot of times these will be 100, 200 miles deep. the shallower they are the more shaking stays at the surface. a lot of it has to do with the soil content and the make-up of that. let me move on because that was at 10:33 local time. theyve had significant after shocks. dr. lucy jones is saying t...

Some smaller communities around it. so very strong shaking. thank goodness no one felt severe, violent or extreme. now, you come up a little bit to light shaking, 21 million people felt that. thats l.a. you get another 2 million that felt weak shaking. thats over toward las vegas, but it was a different type. it was a rolling kind of wave, they call it, a low frequency, so they travel farther from the epicenter. here are all the fault lines in california. i mean, its hard to see them. there are ...

Was particularly hard hit. we have reports from california office of emergency services that there are -- there seems to be a couple of structure fires going on in ridgecrest and theyre responding to them. theres a small community called trona, which is closer to the ruptures and its on a dried lake bed. we dont have any communication with them yet. that would be a place where theres significant damage. as i said, were seeing two faults involved. this area is characterized by robust sequences. s...