5.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Bakersfield area | Full Coverage

but if I started at one location then I can rip down the paper and so the same thing happens on the fault it rips down the fault starting at the epicenter and moving down producing energy the whole way look at this you're hearing the sound the whole time I'm I'm ripping the paper so let's imagine 5.3 a fault maybe 5 kilometers across that means the Earth's producing energy for about 2 seconds and if you were very nearby you would feel an extremely strong motion for a few seconds because it comes off the fault and then it starts bouncing around off of things but if you're nearby there's not a lot of things that's run into when Allan said that we were having Basin effects amplifying the shaking that's the waves come into the Basin hit the walls of the Basin bounce back hit the next wall of the Basin bounce back and you get a Reverb basically uh uh set up within the Basin and then you get this extended duration you know when we've modeled what the San Andreas earthquake would look like in the LA Basin we' get 50 seconds of strong shaking in downtown Los Angeles and that's because of these Basin effects so this earthquake much much smaller of course but it was large enough to set up some of these Basin effects and get things bouncing around you know the very distinct waves uh if you there's the possibility that the p-wave was felt here in the B the Basin um the so an earthquake produces two different major types of waves the p-wave moves faster but it's smaller the swave is a sheer wave and causes more damage is usually lar quite a bit larger but it takes longer to get to us so sometimes you can feel the p wve and the s-wave um maybe if somebody was in a very sensitive situation you would have one very weak one and then you feel the stronger one I know quite clearly that I only felt the strong one and it only lasted for about 3 seconds here in Pasadena um and I was sitting quietly on the first floor of a building so that where you're sitting you know if you're in a building the building might amplify what's going on what somebody perceives at any location uh is very variable depending on all sorts of situations of what you're what uh soils what rocks the the waves went through and whether you're sitting still whether you're moving around all of those are going to affect it by quite a bit um all right we've been listening to uh Dr uh Lucy Jones our expert seismologist we're always uh fortunate when we get Dr Jones on the air explaining exactly what we experienced a 5.3 earthquake not on a major fault which is probably why news yeah it didn't do um we haven't heard about any any damage so far from this earthquake um she said that there have been a number of aftershocks which we've known about at least two above four four above a three and when she talked about an active sequence which this was anything above average average is 1.4 so that's why they're calling it an active sequence MH and um also we you know we felt it here in Los Angeles we also heard about the Basin effect very interesting how basically the shock waves make it into our area bounce off the sides of the Basin and that's why maybe some of us here felt more of that rolling motion which which I definitely felt here in in the studio and it because we're in a basin it can amplify the shaking well we're going to go up to Desmond Shaw who has been uh flying overhead of course but he's trying to get well you look at our camera there that's uh when it happened how that was shaking the Santa Monica Pier camera but Dez has been uh getting fire shots of fire helicopters doing some surveys around the era which always happens right Dez after an earthquake that's right yeah Pat and Juan so we're coming out of the new Hall Pass right now we actually just came up to the new Hall Pass and up towards cake about as far north as we can fly uh put up the map tracker here really quick we're getting over to the Granada Hills area coming down off of ceson Boulevard and Burbank but we just kind of wanted to check some of the normal places see if there might be any Rock slides dirt slides anything like that along San Fernando Road Foothill The Old Road any of those fortunately we did not see any issues out there at all the five freeway obviously fine as well as the 14 we were going to go check out fire three which we just heard on Van eyes Towers on their way to my alma M of seeson just to go check around they're definitely on uh duty three different fire helicopters scouring Los Angeles really just out of an abundance of caution I would say at this point no reports of any damage I would suspect that they're going to check out the ovet library at sees sun has these really huge pillars uh that you might be susceptible to earthquake damage of course it was built just after the somar earthquake and survived the Northridge Earthquake so highly doubt there's going to be any issue there but I'm sure just out of an abundance of caution that's what they are going to be looking at let me see if this is one of the fire helicopters right here and AEP this is one of them so I think they just did a an orbit around North Ridge and they may be coming back in for landing there was another helicopter over Hollywood as well as LAX so they're definitely out there on patrol just making sure that everything is okay here in the greater LA area Pat Juan they check on railroad tracks and metr Link lines and that sort of thing right Dez yeah I mean anything where where you know areas could be susceptible to damage I know they were as we're getting up over seison right now and I'll show you the ovet Library here in just a moment here it is right here here are those columns that I was telling you about here pretty high up in the air so I'm sure they just wanted to come and kind of do a cursory search around uh this area we heard them over by all of you Medical Center which is actually very close to where the uh the epicenter of the SAR earthquake was and that's actually how that hospital came to be but I'm sure they were up against the mountains again just making sure there weren't any landslides anything crazy like that and we haven't heard of of any damage uh what whatso ever in the greater LA area but uh they were just over here in Northridge going to be scouring wherever to see if there could have been any effects uh from this earthquake guys all right we appreciate uh your observations for us Desmond and just u a reminder to folks and Dez we can we can stay on your shot and you can chime in if you'd like you know we have been in in there have been earthquakes even larger than a 5.3 not much larger but if I recall maybe a 5.7 and depending on where you are even in The Newsroom you may not feel it they I say that U because of personal experience being at my desk and hearing the assignment desk saying oh did you feel that and and I didn't so I guess it just depends on on where you are in a lot of uh a lot of these experiences in here too cuz we're on your your you guys are on an elevated platform I'm on an elevated platform and sometimes different things happen in here that you you think it's an earthquake so the go-to for me is I always look up at the lights to see if they're shaking to see if they're shaking we actually have a light over here above one of our monitors that's got a bit of a filter on it and I could see that starting to shake around and then I looked back at the Monitor and saw the Santa Monica camera but yeah sometimes it is a little bit difficult to in here to feel them just because of the way the building's built and that's what happens too right if you're in a car if you're moving around as as Dr Jones was saying you may not feel the earthquake um at all but the time of day that this happened uh it's in the evening it was past 9:00 a lot of people are home they're still and that's when you're going to see maybe some light shaking or or maybe your pets react to some of the shaking as well you know I had asked Mike um about an earthquake that happened not long ago he was talking about barow I remember earlier this year cuz I called in yeah first time I have ever felt an earthquake in my car it was rolling I was parked in someone's driveway and all of a sudden it just started I'm thinking well what's wrong with this car what's happening underneath you know I've got to take it to the shop and it was actually an earthquake um so that's very interesting that had never happened to me before never experienced something like that but again depending on where you are at the moment and we've just learned that um okay we're just showing it on our graphic it's been downgraded now to a 5.2 still a moderate earthquake right no matter how definitely and you know Pat I think I'm going to take it back you're mentioning feeling an earthquake um while you were parked in a car something similar happened to me I was in like the U East Hollywood Silver Lake Area many years ago and I felt like someone had tapped my back bumper and and I told somebody that that's weird it felt like somebody had tapped the back of my car and then said well we just had an earthquake so I guess you can't feel it even if you're in your car yeah and something um you know uh strong elsewhere just me to make the car move like that I was a bit surprised cor Northridge that's something quite different I've never experienced an earthquake like that since and certainly hope uh that we don't right when you've got a lot of that was centered in North Ridge and you you know all the buildings and apartments and homes universities that were damaged and and the 10 freeway the 118 that was a that was the biggest one that uh We've KN knock that we've really all experienced that 7 point was that 7.3 guys that was in uh River uh rrest yeah that was I think the first one cuz it was July 4th and then July 5th if I remember correctly and I think you were on the air was on the air and I think the first one was a six something and then I think the next day it was a seven and that was crazy because that was I mean way that was even further than this one was and it was felt uh I was working with my cooworker at ston and we you know I think you guys did too we got under the desk even here in the studio um and that's even how far away it was and then the second day when it happened again we had our crew up there already covering it uh we immediately lost cell phone service with them we couldn't get a hold of anybody up there and not because anything was necessarily damaged but the first thing everybody does when there's a quake is run to their phone and try to call somebody and say hey did you feel that that ties up all the lines and it was a whole thing we ended up having I think we used a satellite phone that day to be able to kind of keep in contact with them but you know there was significant structure damage up there from that one correct in the and in the ridgerest area in ridgerest and not obviously not an urban area so you didn't have as many people you didn't have as many buildings and structures but they certainly uh received damage but we didn't hear as a result of that and uh so far so good guys in terms of what's happened uh near Bakersfield yeah and I would just want to point out it is still shaking up there the map is continuously updating I think last count I think we're up to 24 aftershocks um and these are not small I mean we're talking a 3.0 3.5 you know everything in the two let me just see what the smallest Aftershock has been it looks like the smallest Aftershock uh has been a 2.5 which is still I mean certainly not damaging shaking but that is still enough to feel when you're up there and I remember I mean when we were doing rid Crest stuff there were people that didn't want to go back inside their homes because the ground wouldn't stop shaking so you know it's probably not that situation up there but 2.5 is definitely still enough to feel if you're right in the area and 24 aftershocks is is a lot and when when was the exact time that this hit I don't not 99 909 and what did Dr Jones just say um that within a quart a quarter of all four shocks happened within the hour right so right you know closer to the hour now guys and that's that's good and the nice thing is she said it reduces with time and by day three we're kind of out of out of danger the risk is gone so only time will tell but my go in 20 plus aftershocks from this earthquake from just less than an hour ago but you know what we feel thousands though M thousands happen every day um you know you could I I I can be I remember just maybe hearing my night stand like something like what was that rattling a little bit like the house settling right but don't yeah you don't get up out of your bed and and run and get your kitten anything like that because you figure well I guess that's an Aftershock if there's no other explanation there's an Aftershock somewhere so that's pretty normal to happen and I guess the good news too Mike is normally we would have people calling us talking about uh damage and you haven't received any no we have we have gotten a ton of viewer emails of people just kind of letting us know um where they felt it and certainly have felt it from all over the place our email is also full with the uh the alerts about aftershocks and different things like that happening so we're certainly you know hearing from people that have felt it uh and especially as the shaking continues and I was looking at the USGS map and a mic in the booth I don't know if we can come to my computer really quick I just want to show people how far uh even to the north it was felt so certainly this is the LA Basin here uh Orange County sanino uh even out in Riverside County people have felt it but when you look to the north here as well I mean we're talking about the North End of Fresno is reporting feeling it even all the way over to the north uh Northwest San Louis abiso they're also reporting feeling it so uh definitely felt a pretty good swath away and again this is where the epicenter was excuse me that's Cal Tech ending their meeting uh a 5.2 Quake though is this is where the epicenter was right along the five and the 99 Freeway but each one of these boxes is a report of somebody feeling it so uh you can see as get into the more populated areas here that's where they are feeling it most Desmond Shaw is still up in Sky cow right now uh surveying the helicopter does that's fire four with you right there fire five uh fire five to the left and I think that's fire three we can see way in the distance right over here uh over towards the Hollywood Hills we had just heard them uh talking on the common frequency they were over by children's hospital and I know you know the other Chopper that that that just we saw over Northridge was also over all of you Medical Center so I'm sure sure you know they're just going to check out all of the hospitals around the LA area looking for you know anything that that could be conceived as any kind of crack or damage or anything that might warrant their attention but again this is I think really just kind of standard protocol probably for every earthquake that's above a certain magnitude regardless of how far away it was I'm sure that they just have protocols where they're going to get out and launch and just get the spotlight on and make sure that everything is okay and so far that is the case they have their bright spotlights out there so fire five has pretty much done uh completely circled the Valley from somar now all the way down to West Hills and now at the 101 405 looks like they might be making a southbound turn right now we know of at least three fire helicopters up around the LA uh scouring all over the city guys yeah and Desman I'm looking at um Kern County Fire obviously the earthquake happened in uh their jurisdiction so they are saying that they you know have the same procedures essentially where they'll pull all of the apparatus out of the bay they'll conduct what they call windshield surveys of their districts well they'll uh kind of just drive through and again I I just continue to check and I I don't see any reports of damage I don't see any um you know anything significant certainly enough for a lot of people to feel it uh we've seen some pictures and videos on social media of you know things swaying lamps swaying I mean certainly that was here uh I could only imagine it probably felt a little bit stronger over there in Bakersfield as well so uh you know that's hopefully the extent of it I'm sure we'll you know see kind of our obligatory liquor store that has had some bottles rattle around or you know maybe even some things fall off but again where that Quake was um I just want to come back to my computer uh in the control room if we're able to do that and show you exactly where this happened right off the 5 and the 99 just west of the five freeway and again all of these uh are where the um the 5 now two they've downgraded at 5.2 off update my map here but uh this is where that happened just west of the fire freeway and you can see this is really heavily all Farmland I mean I think if we get in right here there looks like maybe a power supply or something like that but uh not a very populated area where it happened but uh this is up here in Bakersfield and Dez I know uh as you're kind of trailing fire five there we've also got fire four and a couple of the other ones uh doing some stuff as well looks like fire four may have gone around uh the Marina Del Rey area and and that kind of place um are they talking at all on comms are you are they I'm sure not seeing anything it doesn't appear that there was any kind of significant damage here right no we just heard them talking on the tower just letting them know that they were going to be in and out of vanis and Burbank airspace as they were just on uh earthquake uh Duty as they said they're probably going to be checking out a lot of freeway interchanges as well uh since you know aot so many of them are these you know towering columns that you know go all over the place obviously everything built up to very strong earthquake code and almost certainly not going to be affected by you know a five magnitude or 5.2 magnitude earthquake that far away especially when it was that deep but again just all kind of the the obligatory checks just to make sure that everything is okay but it would make sense that you had one at the 405 and the 90 you have a lot of bridges and connectors there the 405 and the 10 the 101 and the 405 and here they are coming over the Hollywood Hills yeah all right Desmond Shaw Sky Cal thank you Susie s Chanty Glover here now joining us for KCAL News at 10 as we continue to talk about the earthquake all right thank you Mike so much breaking news here at 10: and we bring you this breaking news at 10 tonight a 5.2 earthquake near Bakersfield the shaking felt across Southern California now this was the view as you can see the camera shaking from Santa Monica I'm Susie sa you're watching KCAL News at 10 and I'm chony glubber and here's a look from our seismic graph right here look at that this hit at about 910 and we know that it was a 5.3 magnitude earthquake striking near Bakersville and it shook all the way here to LA County a lot of people feeling the shaking as we were talking about let's go upstairs to Desmond Shaw live in Sky Cal with a look Desmond what do you have yeah Susie and chant I believe this is fire three now we were in fire five earlier as they were scouring M let me know this is actually fire five so they circled pretty much the entire San Fernado Valley they took off I believe out of vanis airport they headed east over towards uh kind of the northeast corner of the valley uh the snow Mar area over by ol of you Medical Center probably looking up along the hillsides there the Steep Hillside just making sure there weren't any landslides or anything like that we didn't hear about them finding anything uh of that nature they went over did a big loop around SE Sun looking at some of the structures there then down to the 101 freeway and the 405 there were other Choppers over around the Children's Hospital Medical Center down around LAX so checking out a lot of just very important locations just want to uh just kind of double-checking making sure that everything is uh in pretty good shape and that they didn't suffer any damage went up and did a flight of our own up into the new hall pass up along San Fran Road around the five and the 14 see if we saw anything unusual any dirt in the roadway landslides Rock slides anything like that all the way up to cast didn't see any issues didn't see uh you CHP having to block any lanes for anything so everything looks to be just fine so far from what we've seen across the LA area now as fire five is making their way uh over to the Burbank area and Northbound on the five they've had their spotlights on and off no reports of any damage yet at this point I believe now we're going to go uh to Evelyn ta so I will toss it over to her now guys all right we'll get with Evelyn in just one second but first we spoke with seismologist Dr Lucy Jones tonight to learn more about the aftershocks and the possibility this will lead to a larger event but first we want to get to Mike Rogers at the desk for an update on more of this earthquake yeah you know Susie and Chanty Dr Lucy Jones did have a lot of valuable information as she always does uh one of the things that she talked about is how active of an Aftershock period we are having with these and not something that is necessarily unusual she says it all depends on topography but I want to come to my computer here because I'm going to show you kind of that whole deal and how it works out and where exactly the earthquake was here so uh we're here in the LA area obviously this is the San Fernando Valley all of these contingents of orange dots these are all of the earthquakes uh that have happened 5.2 was the primary one uh you can see it's right here and again I want to show you the topography it's all a lot of uh Farmland out here which is a lot of what Kern County is but look at all of the different aftershocks that have happened right in here all of these orange dots are aftershocks at last count we were up to 25 maybe even higher of aftershocks there that had happened and again all of these aftershocks are not small aftershocks the smallest one I was able to find so far is about a 2.5 which for people that are living in that area certainly are going to feel a 2.5 I also want to come here because I want to show you uh the digifit map this is what the USGS puts out here all of these blue dots are people that felt it all the way down here into Riverside County deep Riverside County to mecula Murietta uh even into almost part of Camp Pendleton there but uh what was also interesting to me is further to the north here where you have up into the North End of Fresno Clovis all that area also reporting feeling it so this was something that a lot of people felt we talked to people even over here in San Louis abiso they're feeling it as well we talked to a lot of people who kind of described this especially over in the Bakersfield area we talked to somebody who uh basically said I I basically saw it more than I felt it lot of shaking of the lights here in the studio uh because we're so far away as Dr Jones was describing uh we felt not the primary wave but the secondary wave which made it feel for us here a little bit more of a kind of a rolling motion it wasn't actually until I looked up at one of our lights here in the studio saw it shaking that we realized it was an earthquake and the the things here in Studio the lights the TVs that are above us uh they shook for quite a while even as we got on the air and we're talking about it you could still see the TVs kind of shaking back and forth so different feelings for everybody uh what was also interesting in this one especially in the Greater Los Angeles area lots of people got the shake alert from the shake uh from the shake alert app uh which is supposed to go off after the Quake is believed to be a certain magnitude or higher it triggers that warning to your phones now I didn't get it here in the studio but uh we've heard from a ton of people who were able to get it and they got it before the actual Quake one of our executive producers saying he got the alert about 10 seconds before the shaking started which you know in this situation thankfully there was no damage no serious injuries but the design of this is for that 10 seconds to be able to save your life for you able to be able to get to a place uh where you may be a little bit more safer so it's good to know that that did work tonight guys all right Mike thank you so much and as we were talking about we spoke with seismologist Dr Lucy Jones tonight to learn more about the aftershocks and the possibility this will lead to a larger event the location is at the southern end of the Central Valley so it's very near where we had a magnitude 7.5 in 1952 however it does not appear to be on the same fault is that earthquake that was the white will fault which dips in a different direction and it doesn't look like this earthquake was associated with any known fault is our preliminary uh assessment um it is having a lot of aftershocks we've already had two above magnitude four and uh four above magnitude three between magnitude three and four so that's a pretty active sequence for for uh this very short amount of time since the event uh I'll answer Mike Rogers uh question from Kow heard people say that they saw things Shake more than they felt it can you explain what that might be that would because most of us felt it from pretty far away I felt it here in Pasadena but it was a very mild shaking because I'm so far away from it and so there's a variety of ways in which you'll experience the shaking but especially if you're sitting quietly relatively far away way you'll see things move maybe more than you'll be feeling it um also in terms of the chances that this is a fores shock uh we have the same answer for every earthquake it's about a 5% chance or one in 20 earthquakes in Southern California we see are followed by something larger they turn out to be a fores shock within the next few days there's we've never found anything that makes it look more likely to be a fores shock than any other earthquake so every time we end up saying the same thing a reminder two that the risk of it being a for shock drops rapidly with time one quarter of all four shocks are within an hour of their main Shock by the time we get to three days uh out it's going to be um uh uh essentially the risk will be all gone in terms of whether it's uh unusual to have an active Aftershock sequence um it's a normal distribution we can talk about what the average number is which would be one magnitude 4 right and we've already had two so we're above the average but the the range is extremely large we see variability of more than a factor of a thousand for the same size earthquake I mean we've seen magnitude fives with essentially no aftershocks and we've seen them with thousands and thousands of aftershocks and it's a it's a distribution uh we also haven't seen any particular correlation um between that and the chance of it being a for shock um just to say that when you have a lot of aftershocks you tend to have a lot of aftershocks and you know you could have a larger one now once again that was seismologist Dr Lucy Jones explaining um more in as to what happened here tonight with that earthquake now we also spoke to one of the content managers at the CBS station there in Bakersville he said he got a warning about the quake and was prepared for a big one had the warning of the from the my shake uh app uh just seconds before I felt a shaking and it notified me that a 6.0 earthquake was coming I was getting ready for that Shaker but um I a couple seconds later we saw the lights moving and our blinds moving just a little bit but wasn't as strong as I uh was expecting it to be all right Evelyn tap standing by now with more on this earthquake Evelyn yeah and of course if it was a 6.0 magnitude Quake It would be exponentially larger than a 5.0 and that means 10 times larger than a t 5.0 so we will take it we will take a 5. three and right now we're tracking the aftershocks Susie and Chanty and we were counting out about 28 I'm looking at the long line right here and it's too many to even count and they keep coming so we're over two dozen at this point possibly a little more I'm going to hone in on the area where we saw the initial shaking in metler and now around metler again more than two dozen aftershocks at the moment and this was a 5.3 on what we now call the moment magnitude scale we've known it as the RoR scale over for so many years but it's largely sort of replaced the older RoR scales it provides a more accurate and consistent measurement of an earthquake size particularly for large distant or deep earthquakes again this one not as deep and not really associated with the big fault line Dr Lucy Jones was telling us that earlier it is a 5.3 Quake which is considered a moderate earthquake so that means it could cause damage to buildings we'll show you a graphic coming up right here just to kind of give you a little more perspective but it could cause damage to buildings and infrastructure especially if they're not well constructed uh but typically it doesn't result in widespread destruction so let's take a look at these aftershocks so the last time we looked at this map we maybe had about three four five six at the most aftershocks they just keep going and going every Red Dot represents what we've seen shaking wise in the last hour so just to give you an idea again if we put all these numbers on the map they wouldn't even fit but we started at at 5.3 5.2 then 4.1 35 25 33 so we did see now we're counting 3 4.0 and above aftershocks and then they go down to three and two and that's where we're at right now so we're considering uh really in the 2.7 range just a little lower for so I just want to show you what that means as far as earthquake magnitude go so right now we're feeling two to three which is usually not felt or maybe felt a little bit minor no damage so that's what we're working with as far as these aftershocks we get about 100,000 earthquakes like this for per year not aftershocks but earthquakes just to give you an idea happens on a regular basis then we go up to a four which is considered light and that's where we see noticeable shaking we get about 10,000 per year as far as not noticeable shaking goes in a light category 5.0 that's considered moderate we get some property damage we get about 1,500 of these a year this is where this earthquake in metler is landing and the energy equivalent a million pounds of explosive remember this is all exponential so to get to 6.0 or 6.3 right that's 10 times more than what we experienced tonight so similar to what we saw in the North Ridge Quake or Quake that I experienced in 1989 which was the lomma per Quake up in Northern California but of course a lot of us familiar with the north rdge Quake North Ridge Quake which was a 6.9 which is almost a seven which would be considered almost a major between strong and major so tonight just a moderate but still we are assessing the damage and I'm going to send it back to you guys for the details on that all right Evelyn thank you all right now we want to go out to Laura Perez she is live tonight in Studio City talking to folks who felt the shakes when the earthquake hit laori yeah well actually it's been a little bit um difficult to find people who felt the Quake I understand that you all there at the studio did feel it quite uh strongly however we're just a couple blocks away we talked to more than a dozen people who uh were visiting the store or who work here at the store they did not feel it which I think just goes to show that it really depends on where exactly you are and what exactly you're doing uh if depending on whether or not you actually feel it we were up in SEI Valley my photographer and I were up in SEI Valley when we got the alert and it said to brace for an earthquake which we did and then we didn't feel anything so uh we have been seeing on social media people in uh Castaic and sagus and Palmdale all reporting that they felt it um but very hit and mes hit and miss where we are we did just speak with a young man who is on his motorcycle uh and he did feel the shakes I was driving it was just shaking it felt like uh I was going to fall off my bike actually have you been through an earthquake before not on my bike but yeah I have okay and uh was it a little startling or what' you think uh it was it was it it felt weird I felt like like I said I felt like fall off did you immediately know it was happening no I did not I didn't no I didn't know yeah I thought I thought it was something wrong with my bike but and then and then when did you realize uh somebody told me afterwards that it was it was a it was earthquake yeah that's right he said he thought uh it was maybe a problem with his bike something uh some sort of problem with the road and he said it did last more than a few seconds and then when he heard from his buddy that it was an earthquake then he figured it all out but again that just shows you you know we were uh bracing for it up in SEI Valley and we did not feel anything he was on his bike he wasn't quite sure what it was it really does depend on what you're doing when it hits guys back to you all right lari thank you so much I know it's different uh feeling that while riding a bike sure I imagine my goodness on two wheels it must be so different all right Lori thank you let's go back upstairs now to Desmond Shaw live in Sky Cal he is checking things out from the air just to make sure everything is okay so far no reports of damage or injuries right Desmond that's right Susie and Chanty we're over the cresenta valley right here you see Foothill Boulevard and the 210 Freeway in the center of the shop and no reports of any damage in fact it sounds like LA City fire their helicopters are going to be wrapping up their earthquake survey duties we were following fire five who came over here to the cresenta valley as I put up the satellite so he went up into the mountains right here and then actually turned his lights off which was a little startling but that was because he was putting on his night vision goggles so they were going back in the mountains and said that they were headed up to go check out pcoa Dam to make sure that that was okay there's also a dam that is up uh big tah hunga road that they they were going to check and they so they had to use their night vision goggles to be able to do that but we saw them over around season ol ofie Medical Center in SAR they were checking out the hillsides uh here over to the left in the latuna canyon area looking for any Rock slides anything like that didn't see any kind of issues so it sounds like the fire Choppers will be returning to base just kind of their uh standard protocol anytime there is a earthquake of a certain magnitude just getting out making sure everything is okay in Los Angeles and all appears to be well johy and Susie right Desmond thank you so much we want to go back to the desk now and Mike Rogers I understand you have some video of a meeting uh during this Quaker when it hit yeah so you know Susie and Chon it's not uncommon for us here at the desk to roll on City Council meetings roll on important meetings uh that happen and one of them was the meeting down in Ranchos Palace veres where they're talking about the landslide that is uh happening down there uh I want to show you my computer first though because I want to show you uh the the digi feel it area and you can see that ranchel palace veres here is one of those places where it was all the way down into Huntington Beach you know uh Jose and our to Center our technical Operation Center was just telling me that there was a different meeting that we were rolling on down in uh Huntington Beach where they also felt it so uh definitely people are feeling it now what was interesting though and again I think as technology advances we were talking more and more about uh the advancement of these early warnings and the meeting and we'll show you here the the uh video is going over right now but the meeting that we were listening to down in ranchers Palace veres they actually found out about it from uh the app first and then you can kind of see them all sit there and then essentially kind of just wait for them to uh feel it and I think we do have that tape now uh if we're able to take a look at that so okay not yet we're still working on that but um you know these meetings that are happening you're you're seeing them uh that's the beauty of live streaming you guys so we're continue continue to work on that tape meanwhile I'll go back over to the USGS map and I'll show you just kind of the series of aftershocks and look at all of those so these orange ones as they turn orange uh those are the ones that are getting a little bit older the red ones are the ones that are are newer here so but just a ton of aftershocks so look over on the side which uh again the smallest one that I'm seeing here is about a 2.5 so but lots of aftershocks definitely would be felt a 3.5 a 3.0 uh a 3.8 that's a pretty decent one a 4.1 a 4.5 so uh definitely after shocks that are shaking people and again this is Bakersfield area here along the five and the 99 so excuse me we are going to go to that tape now and I want you to take a listen and again they this is when they're sitting there talking about the landslide and ranch pal for it [Laughter] [Music] is yeah and you can hear them say you know you should take cover uh the beginning of the tape there a little bit you hear the the actual Shake alert app which we can't you know have you listen to for you know obviously public safety concerns and we don't want people to think that there's another earthquake coming but uh you hear that they actually kind of joke about it because somebody says oh come on it's in Kern County but then they're sitting there and they do kind of feel it and that is the alert that a lot of people got on their phones tonight you guys all right Mike thank you so much and be sure to stay with KCAL news for continuing coverage of the earthquake near Bakersville tonight of 5.2 well developing news tonight homicide detectives are on the scene of a mysterious death outside of 7-Eleven in West Hollywood LA County Sheriffs tell us two cars here collided at the gas station on Santa Monica Boulevard in Fairfax then something else happened afterwards that put one person in 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