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Feel it as it comes through. >> can we expect us magnitude of aftershocks throughout the meeting? >> the largest aftershock has been a six. >> we should feel it now. >> there it is. did you feel that? >> that was the phone ringing. >> that was less than the one that i felt that was 4.9. so clearly, we are a long way away from the earthquake but we can still feel it. we already have damaged houses and structure fires out of the first. this >> this came through just as a 3.5. >> the same fault line as the

Magnitude isn't really estimated my guess is we'll feel this as it comes through. >> in about ten seconds. >> can we expect this magnitude of aftershocks throughout the rest of the evening. > yeah, the largest is likely to be a six. >> here we go. feeling it now. >> there it is. there it is. there it is. >> feel it? >> yeah. >> that was the phone ringing. >> that was less than i felt from the one that was labeled as 4.9. >> yeah. >> all right. >> so clearly we're a long ways away from the erg quake. remember that the people in ridge crest are going through a lot worse than this. we already had...

When -- >> loss of life. right now there's two things that we dictated to our command center and that is prevent any loss of life and property damage. those are our two initial objectives and that's what we're trying to do first and foremost. >> how are you doing on those two fronts? i understand it's a fluid -- >> right now there's no fatalities. i don't know injuries. i'm still working on that. i'm hopeful it's not as -- i'm hopeful it's a good report. i'm optimistic that it will be. property damage is undetermined as of yet. at least two structure fires. one of them has been put out. i don'...

Significant. looking at our algorithms run through what we call our hazard analysis algorithm, the shaking intensity was at its highest level in and around china lake and just adjacent to the town of ridgecrest. we have significant reports of fires, structure fires, mostly as a result of gas leaks or gas line breaks. there are gas line breaks throughout the city. there will also reports of water main breaks. power is out and communications is out to parts of the community, as well south of ridgecrest and in san bernardino county, the town of trona. a small community of about 2000. there are re...

Just the logistics and the time delay of getting resources out there. we did have firefighters in the community initially on scene. they did the initial damage assessments for any immediate hazards. that being gas leaks or structure fires or even immediate calls for medical service related to the incident. so we're about an hour and a half, two hours away from our larger rescue task force and those structure specialists to get out to that area. so that's the biggest issue we had is the logistics and actually getting our resources out there. we depend on our cooperators, our neighboring agencie...