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Glue we're following breaking news rocking southern cal. the quake was centered near ridgecrest, which is about 150 miles from los angeles. joining me now is democratic congresswoman nanette baragan, you represent an area south of los angeles, so i know you did not field this earthquake personally, but you said your mother, who lives slightly north of you did feel it. what are you hearing? >> we're hearing it was more of a shanking, and they said they felt it, but didn't feel it very strongly where i am in south los angeles. not hearing too many roberts, certainly haven't heard any damage repo...

We are seismologist measuring the movement of the ground. damage reports go to the office of government services. rob, can i ask you to come join us? so rob graves is a seismologist with the us geological survey and regional coordinator for southern california. >> and let me just -- obviously we're here because we had an earthquake to celebrate fourth of july. we're going to have people out, our geologists are heading out into the field right now to see if they can document any fault displacement obviously if any damage reports will come in. this earthquake was large enough where the shaking c...

Frequency energy. if you feel it's a rolling motion you know it's pretty far away. when i felt the motion it felt pretty rolling motion and i could estimate it was at least a magnitude 6 and it had to be pretty far away. >> for those just joining us, can you back up to the beginning. where was the earthquake centered exactly? >> the basis of the earthquake, the earthquake is near ridge crest, so the area to the east of the southern most part of the san andreas fault. we'll have to have a field geologist to tell us. it's a sparsely inhabited area so the number of people who would have received ...

Residents are reminded of the potential of after shocks to drop cover and hold on. they say to make your phone calls around. any damage reports from los angeles fire? >> reporter: the good news is we're not hearing anything at this point. again, i want to stress that los angeles is quite a bit away from the epicenter of this earthquake. the cities that are going to be feeling the brunt of this, we're talking about bakersfield, lancaster, big bear, california, area, lake arrowhead. those areas probably got a pretty good shake and there could possibly be some minor damage in those areas. here in...

Tornado. that means violent, large and long track tornados are possible like the one six years ago today, the ef-5 that moved into -- i'm sorry just south of oklahoma city and more. it took 24 lives, 212 injuries, and this is an outlook where we may see the greatest activity. this takes us 10:00 at night. that's when it gets a little frightening. when you lose the light and you're in the darkness. and besides the opportunity of tornados we've already seen damage from hail from lubbock, texas. we've had damage reports, over 7 tornados being reported throughout the afternoon, but we're looking f...