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>> lucy, all on the same fault line as the 6.4. >> the same fault system. it appears to have multiple strands to it. we've already seen the two perpendicular ones. i think they got the magnitude wrong because yeah. unless it hasn't come through yet. boom. >> can you explain the shake alert again? because some people just got the initial report that it, quote unquote, wasn't working. >> okay. >> can you explain again that -- >> let's let the usgs handle that one. >> so yeah, so the system worked. >> that was a 5.1. >> yeah. >> so the system, the shake alert system worked both on usgs side and o...

Ahead of today show live shot. we were in bed lights off. it was really, really strong. all of a sudden. kind of started quite gradually and got really violent. it was so much stronger than anything i felt the 5.4 this morning. quite forcefully. but this was extraordinarily scary and very strong. everything in the hotel started shaking, the room absolutely kind of -- there were a couple archways started creaking but of course, when you're sound asleep and kind of wake up, you're not exactly sure what's going on. quickly grabbed our stuff. the alarms in the hotel started going off loudly, kind ...

Forever. just a few seconds i'm sure we'll have to look at the usgs updated but violent shaking. there was no kind i have gentle rolling which is what i felt in l.a. on friday. this was a serious shaking, the whole room felt like it was going back and forth. the curtains came off. everything started off falling off the dechk and got up, put on shoes, grabbed stuff, ran outside. everyone was running outside the hotel at that point. families, of course, lots of kids outside. the alarms were sounding. all the power was out. almost immediately. and the whole hotel you know, i can't speak to its fo...

>> melissa, while we were just listening to the press conference account aftershock they felt at that press conference we felt here close to the epicenter. it's just an incredibly constant violent shaking of the ground. whether you're in the car or standing outside, i was standing outside for one of them. in the car for the other. it's just incredibly violent. the thing though even though they said there were a couple of strong ones we're looking at the usgs site right now. we're getting small aftershocks every couple minutes. while they won't be felt in l.a., here we can feel much smaller aft...

Feel like compared to the earlier earthquake, please. >> i was in los angeles when that 6.4 hit on friday. and it was similar to what we heard lester describing before. he was obviously in l. a., as well. it was a rolling feeling almost. and it lasted for a few seconds. a few seconds longer in l.a. because the energy we've heard from the u subpoena gs was moving around kind of a elongating that actual sensation in los angeles. i felt the 5.4 really strongly this morning. i was sitting down and that was the strongest thing i'd felt since we had been up here. pretty much all day feeling 3.2s, 3....