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Guys, confirm to my ears is this ridgecrest . It appears to be a house fire. Mayor breeden, this may be one of the five fires you were describing. It is absolutely raging. You see fire on the scene. Can you just give us an update . You say you believe there have been five fires. Youre not entirely sure if theyre under control. I do not know that officially. As i look around me i can see smoke but i cannot see i cannot see other than one, and thats still black smoke. Theres others that im sure that i only know of the report. And you mention as we stay on these images, you mention checking in wi...

They move with respect to each other and if they move like this it is right lateral and if it moves like this, it's left lateral. [reporter question] >> san andreas is a left lateral, dip slip moving up the mountains. in general, the faults, many parts of california we see this strike slip motion and what it is leading to is gradually extending -- it isn't pushing us up or down, but it is sort of moving sideways and stretching out parts of the state. >> reporter: can you talk a little bit about the lack of, we've basically been in a drought period for a major earthquake. does this confirm that...

Strike slip motion. >> how does that information help you? >> well, obviously if in terms of damage, if you had a pipeline or structure that straddles that fault and it moves sideways, that could be very devastating. i don't know if that's the case here, again. also in terms of the ground shaking that was experienced in the ridgecrest area lucy was talking before how the earthquake started off to the northeast and propagated to the southwest towards ridgecrest. with this type of horizontal motion that actually can be c p amplified. until we get some more definitive information from some folks ...