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>> lucy, all on the same fault line as the 6.4. >> the same fault system. it appears to have multiple strands to it. weve already seen the two perpendicular ones. i think they got the magnitude wrong because yeah. unless it hasnt come through yet. boom. >> can you explain the shake alert again? because some people just got the initial report that it, quote unquote, wasnt working. >> okay. >> can you explain again that -- >> lets let the usgs handle that one. >> so yeah, so the system worked. >> ...

So just listening to the experience in las vegas, it could not be more different here. i was raised in california. ive never felt anything like that. i was trying to explain earlier kind of overestimate how scary it was. and to be in a closed space, to see your room kind of literally on hinges going back and forth. there wasnt a good way to move to stay safe. i kind of froze in my bed. i was sound asleep and weaken by this violent shaking. we heard in that press conference there was a smaller sh...

That is five times bigger than what we saw on thursday. were getting all reactions from our teams on the ground, from sarah sidner, our metrologist. i want to speak to the owners of a super 8 motel in ridgecrest. thank you for joining us. what did you experience? >> caller: i was checking a customer and i was at the front desk. and we had this little shake, so we stepped out. we went back in and right after that, what we saw was massive. it was the first time i experienced something. i felt like...

Ridge. that happened during the quake for anyone who lived here at the time. everyone remembers seeing the marina on fire. and that was partly because you saw gas lines broken. pipes break they burst. you get fires. and that could cause quite a bit of damage. you can have explosions as well. people are reminded where is can i turn off my gas. if i feel this quake. there are many homes that have been fitted with something that automatically if they feel a hard enough shake will switch the gas lin...

Oh, my god!d! o, my god! >> got it on video, dude. oh, my god! center field and -- stay calm. >> it continues to rattle strong here. >> 8:21 here on the air and were experiencing very strong shake. i think we need to get under the desk. >> we have to go to break. well be right back. wow! >> were evacuating the store! >> everybody okay? >> all of the pictures on the walls and everything turned over on us. we live in the top are floo flo apartment complex and we were coming down and shaking down t...

Line at the 6.4? >> the same fault system. it has multiple strands to it. we have already seen the two. i think it got the magnitude wrong. yeah, unless it hasnt come through yet. >> can you explain the shake alert again? people just got the initial report. it quote on quote wasnt working. can you explain again that -- >> lets let the u.s. gs handle that. >> the system worked. >> that was a 5.1. >> the system the shake alert system worked on the u.s. gs side and the shake alert l.a. side. the re...

Correspondent. i cant believe you had the guts to go out on your balcony and take video. >> its that feeling of not knowing whats going on and wanting to know. we jumped outside and we could see that pool across the way starting to shift back and forth and starting to go everywhere. >> you think of the ground as something that is your rock, your foundation. all of a sudden, this large apartment building was shake. your eyes play a trick on you because you think how could something so large be sh...

Helping. during a earthquake, number one business. so you are no big to anybody. to protect yourself, you get out and look around to see if other people are in need of help, that sort of a thing. >> one of the things you remind me of, when i walk into a building, i always look for the baring wall. people think im crazy. but thats how it is in california. when is this idea of a shake app or shake alert there in southern california going to work? you are just spitting distance from silicon valley ...

Tall, and we could feel a jolt and then a shake. and it went on for quite some time. i think that is the one thing we all remarked on. we also talked to folks who are on the ground floor as were up three or four floors and they said they actually felt the roll. they felt the jolt, and then they felt the floor roll. and so that is exactly what youre hearing happened at the epicenter as well in ridgecrest where people, of course, felt it far stronger than we did here in los angeles. but for long t...

A 6.4, the talked about the building moving and floor rippling so they do have damage. the first report of damage were getting in the ridge crest area about 150 miles from los angeles. i also want to tell you this, we have just spoken to someone in las vegas. thats about 269 miles away from los angeles, they felt this earthquake all the way in las vegas. as you know, the further away you get from the epicenter the lesser effect youre going to get from an earthquake. but the fact they felt it all...