Activated the safe Emergency Operations to the highest level. And appealed to washington for federal disaster aid. This is what it looked like from inside someones home. The table [ bleep ]. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh [ bleep ]. Oh, the front door came open. Thats okay. Thats okay. Just hold on, hold on. Oh, my god. This is bad, brian. Oh. Oh, my god. The entire house shaking there. The office of californias governor says they have activated the state Operations Center to provide further assistance. Theyve also requested Additional Support from the u. S. President. At the state Operations Center, we are fully activated at the highest level. Earlier tonight, Governor Newsom did talk to the white house and requested a president ial Emergency Declaration. The support our operations in the state and to provide federal assets will be called direct federal assistance in support of all of the mutual aid assets that we are currently providing to most ly kern county and San Bernardino county. Governor newsom activated the state Operations Center at its highest level tonight. And the fire and mutual aid from the los angeles riverside, San Bernardino and Fresno County areas to include urban search and rescue teams, fire strike team, firefighters, Hazardous Materials response units, emergency medical services, Ambulance Strike teams. And personnel. In fact, roughly over 100 mutual aid personnel have been dispatched in support of these various fires and the support of both trona and the town of ridgecrest. Our correspondent alex field went through this 7. 1 earthquake. Shes in ridgecrest. We just heard the officials there talking about all of the support theyre bringing to that area, certainly needed. But mainly the support people need now is helping get through the night. And many are sleeping outside. Not much that the officials can do to help them there. Reporter certainly not, natalie. You know, just thinking about that video you just played and hearing that woman say repeatedly, this is bad. I think thats how everyone in this Community Felt when they felt that 7. 1 quake. It was undeniably powerful. It was undeniably jarring and scary. Even for people who prepare for earthquakes in this part of the country. Even for people who have experienced earthquakes before. There was power for this. It was prolonged and it was frightening for all who experienced. Yes, i think youre exactly right this will be a sleeps night for many. There are about 130 people who have gone to shelters to spend the evening. We heard the mayor say that she expects many people will be sleeping outside of their homes, in the yards. Shes urging caution for all of the cars out on the roads looking around and responding to emergencies. She wants everyone to be aware of the fact that theres so many people afraid to be back in their homes that theyre choosing to be outside tonight. For many, that may be the safest choice. We are still expecting many more aftershocks. There have been dozens tonight and hundreds and hundreds since the first quake hit. There are reasons for people to take precaution. As for the immediate damage caused by this quake, well, officials still have to get their hands around that when the someone comes up. Theyre operating largely in the dark with large swaths of power out. We know the key concern tonight is gas leaks and fire and also looking for damaged structures. No reports, flattened structures, but certainly theyre seeing cracks in the road and anything that come up overnight. Really, its going to take daylight to see what exactly the damage is here, natalie. Right. And we know the red cross is is there helping out, helping people with water. But, you know with these power outages, alex, it makes you think this is a very, very hot state temperaturewise. So the people that dont have a place to go are having to also deal with the temperatures. Reporter yeah, it is extremely hot. We were out here all day today, you know, during the height of the day, its almost unbearable, particularly for somebody who isnt entirely accustomed to it. If youre older and if you have any Health Concern and youre not going to have air conditioning or a fan, thats going to be incredible difficult. And im certain you have officials encouraging people to get to shelters. But do get the electricity and air conditioning back. You certainly dont want injuries or medical emergencies happening after the fact, as a repercussion of this. Right, thats a big focus that well point out in the next day or so. And ridgecrest is a town of what, just shy of 30 Million People i guess theres not many places where you can go to escape. Reporter a 6. 2 earthquake which we had on thursday is a big earthquake. And really what we were hearing a lot today, as officials were surveying damage was that a quake that powerful could have caused more damage, certainly, in an area that is more densely palm slated. And there was just this overwhelming feeling twli ing t there was some damage, while there was cracks in the road, largely, the area had fared very well. The other thing that came to light, natalie, is the fact that of course people were preparing for the big one. We were hearing within the last 24 hours from local officials who say they constantly work on the emergency plans that are in place for these type of situations but thursdays quake showed how that plan works. And certainly, this latest one, the 7. 1 will be another test of that plan. And it will probably be another day or so to hear how officials are weighing in on how prepared they are for the future. Something that helps is the fact that the Emergency Declaration had already gone into effect as a result of the previous quake. That helps to get resources to the people even now. We appreciate your reporting. We know you went threw the quake and its quite terrifying. Youre hanging with us, alex. Thank you so much for helping us understand what people have experienced. Scientists say fridays 7. 1s quake happened on the same fault as thursdays 6. 4 quake, but now the reconstructeded series is making that fault even longer. The epicenter of the 7. 1 is at the northwest end of the fault that moved in the 6. 4. Now, the 5. 4 aftershock this morning extended is that fault, what we saw from the main shock from the 6. 4, the 5. 4 extended to the northwest. And the 7. 1 seems to have extended even farther to the northwest. So the fault is growing. We ruptured a piece in the first quake. We ruptured a bit in the 5. 4 and were rupturing now. And then is usually have aftershocks that last for years . Yes, the expectation is were going to have aftershocks dont and its going to continue on. Meteorologist Karen Maginnis has been helping us understand the magnitude of this. That right there, what they just said, cannot be welcome news to the people of ridgecrest, not weeks, not months, but years. Yes. This is not unheard of it, we see major quakes along that ring of fire across the pacific rim. We know that those afternoon shocks last four years. But in this particular instance its very unwelcome news. I want to point out a couple things if we can zoom in. This is where that seismic activity has been for the last twoplus days. They are intercepting faults. This is the little lake fault. And as she describinged activity thats materialized towards china lake. And then theres the intercepting fault which is the airport lake fault. You can see kind of the power has clustered around ridgecrest. The 7. 1, thats the main shock. The 6. 4, that was a shock this is the underlying structure of the land mass, and its telling us its going to pull apart. And when the 6. 4 magnitude earthquake occurred, people in los angeles said that lasted for 30 seconds. Well, it probably felt like it lasted for 30 seconds because all of that energy, and this one, by the way, is eight times as much Energy Associated with the earthquake. But it takes a while for that energy to kind of calm down. So it surely did feel like shaking for that long. Well, the 7. 1 magnitude, that, literally was 20 to 25 seconds long. So way longer than the foreshock 6. 4 that occurred on july 4th. Here is the map. All of these are faults. This is a very seismic region. And the fact that we havent seen an earthquake take place here for 20 years of this magnitude is significant. It is abnormally quiet. And now, were starting to see things get ramped up across this region. Typically, we would have seen over 20 years earthquakes of this magnitude. For smaller earthquakes, maybe a little more. Five years or so. This doesnt have anything to do with the san andreas fault. Thats a huge tectonic plate. These are tiny faults along the region. Tiny faults with big impact that ripple out into the usa. By the way, they checked the infrastructure, they say its fine. They say the airport is continuing to operate. And bakersfield has had damage. Weve had reports of shaking take place in mexico. So, here in the desert, this is very isolated, but the impacts have been huge, natalie, so, we could do well, this is out in the desert. Well, this is what happened. Finally, the ground has opened up. Back to you. Right. And 178 finally is passable, not that section. Karen, thank you so much. Lfridays earthquake caused damage across much of Southern California, as karen just said. 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A backyard Swimming Pool in ridgecrest, california, as the 7. 1 earthquake rolled through late friday. That shows you how it rolled right there. The community was already on edge after a 6. 4 quake hit the same area the day before. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported, were happy to say, quake experts warn strong aftershocks are likely. The mayor of ridgecrest is asking citizens to be patient as the city dealing with the aftermath following the earthquake. She said some residents are sleeping outside for safety. I would like to say a few words to our own citizens. Many of them have experienced something that is very traumatic. Somewhat unknown for most of them. And many of them are sleeping outside tonight. I know that it is a difficult situation, theyre fearful to be in their homes. And we are offering any services, as noted earlier. We places for people to shelter here. But many are choosing to just be with their neighbors, both in their sidewalks, in their driveways, and some of them are in the streets. Were asking everyone to drive safely, be careful, watch for these people and understand that we are doing the very best we can. It is not an Impossible Task to take care of all of this, but it is going to be a longer task than we thought the other day. Seismologists weve been hearing from have warned more aftershocks are likely to occur. And that has prompted the Ridgecrest Police chief to issue a warning to all of those living in the area. When the stores are open and things like that, make sure that youre stocking up, just in case, that we have something bigger than we had today, ands, you know, stuff starts crumbling and these stores cant get back open. We need to make sure that and if we cant get to you right away, you have to be able to take care of yourself for a period of time. So, i know that we all appreciate that we need to be prepared. And i know its difficult that we always say we will, but now is the time. So prepare yourself, especially for the next, i would say, week, two weeks. This isnt going to stop in the near future. As we know, the aftershocks. They havent slowed down since the 7. 1. There for a period of time, it seemed like they just kept there was a constant vibration, so be prepared. Well, when disaster strikes, stores often close. But our Paul Vercammen found one store open, a liquor store, heres what it looked like after the quake. Reporte reporter im here inside this Convenient Store in richmond. See what happened, stuff knocked down everywhere. Bottles off the shelves broken here. The owner anton says in the two days theyve been rocked by the quake inside the store. He believes they have had more than 100,000 worth of damage. You can see things off shelves. Glass and bottles everywhere. Its going to be a long time cleaning up. But to the credit of the people in the store, they stayed open. Weve seen a steady stream of people coming in to grab whatever it is they need, even water. People often look out for one another. Employees at an albertsons supermarket were doing just that right after the earthquake. Everybody okay . Did you get hurt . Is everybody okay . Im trying to see if anybody is hurt. The air is really thick. Dusty. This is a bad one. This must be the one thats got to be at least 7. Well, thats the scene in one store. Now, we have the scene in a hotel. Earlier, my colleague cyril vaugner, they own a motel in ridgecrest, they described the moment it started shaking. I was checking a customer in, and we had the shake at 8 05, we stepped out. And we wept back in and right outside the desk, it was massive. It was the first time i was feeling something. I felt like the whole building collapsed. We just ran out on the road. I could hear the sounds of earthquake. The rattling, the shaking, the whole building was shaking to a point that i felt like the whole roof was going to fall down. Yeah, it was bad township it was really bad from what we experienced yesterday. I just started crying. I just felt that we are not going to survive this and all. Every moment, i was feeling thats it. And then we riched to the super8 sign. Me and the other guests, we just held each other tight. And we were just praying for the shakes to stop. I had gone through sorry, go ahead. Yeah, i had gone through to get groceries. And i was in the parking lot and i felt it. I just out out the car, just closed my car. My car was literally jumping, you know, up and down, front and back. And i felt like i had just hit my car. It was crazy. Ive never seen anything like this in my life. It was scary. So, thats how bad the roads were . The roads were shaking so much that you couldnt control your car . Yeah no, i was out of the car. The car was moving. And i was i had to i was working to keep my balance on the ground, you know. I was scared that the cars might just hit me. So, i just went to the property next door, like we were just walking. We werent able to walk, it was so shaky, we werent able to maintain our balance. Did you look for a place to hide . Or was there no place available near you . Well, right outside the office is the main road. And the cars were just moving, you know, so it wasnt safe for me to go with the customer on the road. So, i was just holding her, she was an old lady. I was just holding her tight. We were supporting each other. We talked to the super8 sign, we felt that was something to hold on or that would just collapse down. Thats what we felt was the safest place at that moment. Right across that was the road, and that was not safe for us. All the guests were out in the parking lot tell me more about that. Tell me more about the guests. How were they reacting . Everyone was panicked. Fortunately, we have the usgs team with us at our location, so they did warn us that we were going to get some shocks later on. Thats the reason. We were all prepared. We cautioned all our guests to be alert. Everyone just rushed out of their rooms. We have a few accessible guests, they were in wheel shachairs. Basically the 8 05 shock, all the guests were out, and we requested them to be out for a bit. Even the team from the ucla here who are actually, you know, supporting the earthquake. They were here right there. And they just you know, they were really helpful. They kept everyone calm. We all were out here. They were scared. Hotel owners describing what they went through. Now, some residents describe being shaken awake from their beds to a terrifying scene. It was like real shaky. Before anything you could actually hear something on the outside like the houses and stuff, but everything was real shaky. It was like, once it actually hit. Everything was falling over. Everything was shaking. It felt like something out of a movie, honestly. I grabbed my son, hes little. Grabbed my son and grabbed my girlfriend and just tried to huddle up. Its very scary. Hes 7 months old. I think he kind of realizes, hes a baby. I felt like he was scared. What did you feel . I felt like it was scary. Its a scary situation. Nothing really happens here in this town. Stuff like this, its just scary. Well, heres an example of all of the different types of people and all different situations that were impacted. The earthquake also stopped the fun at knottsberry farm, and the famous amusement park. Yeah, its an earthquake. Oh, my god this is video from crystal cox who said she and her family were in line for that, there you see, in the distance, the tallest ride in the park when the quake starts. She said the rides started to sway, and you can only hope that people werent on the ride at the time. I would have had a heart attack. 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