It may not be ‘the big one’ but it still managed to make an awful mess. It looks like this might not be the end of it, either.
There have been more than 1,700 aftershocks after the magnitude 6.4 quake on Thursday. That major quake has been relabeled a “foreshock” now that a 7.1 quake has been recorded. More earthquakes could still come, including another at around the magnitude 6 mark.
The Friday magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit about 11 miles from Ridgecrest, the town in Kern County which was very close to the epicenter of the magnitude 6.4 quake felt on Thursday.
The quake, which interrupted sports games and sparked fires, was felt in Las Vegas and downtown Los Angeles as a rolling motion that seemed to last at least a half-minute.
Seismologist Lucy Jones says that there is a 1 in 10 chance of another magnitude 7.0 or greater quake, and that the probability of a 5.0 is “approaching certainty.”
The 7.1 magnitude quake on Friday was 11 times stronger than the 6.4 on Thursday.
Dr Lucy Jones, a seismologist for the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), said Friday’s quake was the most powerful to hit Southern California since another 7.1 temblor in the same area in 1999.
Jones also warned there is about a one-in-10 chance that another 7.0 quake could hit within the next week, and the the chance of a 5.0-magnitude quake ‘is approaching certainty’.
Here’s some local reporting:
https://twitter.com/_bbsnews/status/1146930810462883840
Look at those chandeliers swing:
https://twitter.com/yiunatf/status/1147354674158137345
Sound up for this one:
https://twitter.com/cns6720/status/1147387332116434944
Sound up for this one, too:
7.1 magnitude earthquake 150 miles away in Ridgecrest, Ca. This is in my 6th (very top) floor apartment in Glendale, Ca. Turn your volume on for the full effect! #earthquakes #earthquake #EarthquakeLA #earthquakecalifornia @earthquakeBot @USGSBigQuakes pic.twitter.com/ZCokTSHvgM
— russell john (@russelljohnnn) July 6, 2019
Form an office building:
#KCAL9 #earthquakela video taken on the 9th floor of my husbands office in Irvine pic.twitter.com/0zQSeh5Kae
— KMSochan (@KMSochan) July 6, 2019
Here’s a news room… as it happened:
We had an earthquake in LA today and our crew reacted, well, as any one of us would if we were in the middle of an earthquake. pic.twitter.com/dSzTJ4hIeh
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 6, 2019
While some people were concerned about the quake, the Dodgers and Padres kept right on playing.
Meanwhile, the ballgame played on.
What? You guys haven’t seen an earthquake before?
The Dodgers and Padres decided to continuing playing during the earthquake ? #EarthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/IlorcVRVnz
— Earthquake Alert ⚠ (@Earthquake2019) July 6, 2019
Here's Dodgers organist @DieterRuehle playing Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move" in the immediate aftermath of #EarthquakeLA at Dodger Stadium (w/ isolated audio) 🌎🎹🎥⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Ka1cykF0Xp
— Organist Alert (@organistalert) July 6, 2019
Several videos of pools spilling over were posted to social media.
The earthquake caused the water in this pool to violently spill over. #EarthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/d7Rg8NPwkx
— Earthquake Alert ⚠ (@Earthquake2019) July 6, 2019
That moment when your pool becomes a wave pool:
Big earthquake just now. #EarthquakeLA #earthquake pic.twitter.com/k5wXIZqmwh
— Matt Fisher (@MrShortGame) July 6, 2019
Splish splash.
From my mom @mom2five1 in Ridgecrest California @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/iZSxoJsSXU
— JD (@jedent) July 6, 2019
Guyssss look a my pool during this earthquake though, water was gushing out #EarthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/3wogrmaxAQ
— ɴɪᴋɪ (@Nixxsters) July 6, 2019
Some folks decided to roll with it.
RT Annihil8or: #EarthquakeLA felt this one from Hanford pic.twitter.com/KPxt7D6wzT
— 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐚, 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐠. (@soozvjung) July 6, 2019
An employee at the #Ridgecrest @Walmart shot this video inside the store following the 6.4 magnitude quake, shows three aisles with significant damage @ABC7 #earthquake #earthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/fygTIGBRzv
— Josh Haskell (@abc7JoshHaskell) July 4, 2019
Products that had fallen from store shelves left a huge mess for employees to clean up.
Some would weep over the lost wine…
Others, over the headache the poor librarian has to deal with:
The damage left wasn’t just to store shelves.
Some of the damage was not trivial at all — like this fire:
For all the havoc, the good news is that there has been no loss of life.
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