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Seconds. We stayed under the table until the shaking stopped. I said well be okay. Were starting to get the initial video and pictures. Obviously everybody is posting things. That were seeing from the effects of that tremor. What were seeing is an impressive fire. This is not from the yesterday. This is from now. This is from a im waiting to get the location. It maybe ridge crest, california. Where alex it is ridge crest. Confirmation. You might be looking at video that we sent in. Were working ...

Rafael teenager. Hes got a rare form of leukemia. The team hopes the story will inspire fans to step up to the plate and tonight the breaking news as we come on. A massive explosion at a shopping center. More than 20 people injured. Shock waves felt a mile away. Gas shut off to the entire area. Firefighters digging through mounds of debris for survivors and the cause of the blast. Also breaking, more quakes. A 7. 1 rocking Southern California. Get under the table. [ bleep ]. Oh, my god. Anxiety ...

Less densely populated areas. tom? >> marcus, thank you. lets bring in seismologist lucy jones. you earlier warned of a potential of a stronger quake. that happened. what are the risks of another quake at this point or anything hitting any time soon? >> theyre small. theyre not zero. at this point were down to a few percent chance that we could have another very large earthquake, 7 or above. most likely weve seen the largest one at this that means plenty of magnitude 5s and 6s that would be part...

Being a 7.1 there. what is it were feeling in l.a.? roughly. >> the magnitude doesnt depend on the location. its a 7.1 period. theres no location to that. to describe what we feel we talk about intensity. it looks like it was 3 to 4. in the l.a. area. depending on where you were. >> the after shock sequence is not a surprise. its vigorous. but in line. not surprising maybe not anticipating. thats within the ballpark? >> in california, southern california would expect to have a magnitude 7 once e...

We now see more after shocks up to the very northwest end. and chances are we stop now. its possible well continue to extend up to the northwest. >> 7.1 you kp expect after shock sequence of over a year. >> yes. the 7.3 landers earthquake the last magnitude happened in 1998. six years after of the main shock. we should be expecting to record earthquakes here for a listening time. >> can you describe that terrain? of the main shock was. >> well, the terrain is very isolated. its desert. not a lot...

New zealand comes to mind. weve seen earthquakes in japan over the last week. now we have these after shocks. what should we expect next? is there going to be more big earthquakes on the horizon in the not too distant future? >> yeah, let me talk about the off shock sequence for the magnitude 8.9. what you can expect is continuing, possibly damaging after shocks to continue for days and weeks, perhaps. wont be surprised to see a magnitude 7 aftershock from this event again, that would be the sec...