>> BREAKING >> NEWS NOW ON THE NEWS AT 10 TO 5.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES KERN COUNTY RATTLING MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TONIGHT GOOD EVENING, I'M VERY MCDAVID THE QUAKE STRUCK AT 9 '09 THIS EVENING ABOUT 10 MILES FROM BAKERSFIELD. >> IT WAS FOLLOWED BY A SERIES OF AFTERSHOCKS AND TONIGHT, FIRE DEPARTMENTS ALL ACROSS THE REGION ARE DEPLOYING THEIR RESOURCES TO CHECK FOR DAMAGE. THE LAFD IS DEPLOYING SEISMOLOGIST SAYS THIS AREA IS PRONE TO EARTHQUAKES. >> 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 DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ON THE SAME FAULT IS THAT EARTHQUAKE THAT WAS THE WHITE WILL FALL WHICH DIPS IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS ARE QUITE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH AND KNOWN FAULT IS OUR PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT. IT IS HAVING A LOT OF AFTERSHOCKS WE'VE ALREADY HAD 2 ABOVE MAGNITUDE 4. FOR ABOVE MAGNITUDE 3 BETWEEN MEN 2, 3, 4, SO THAT'S A PRETTY ACTIVE SEQUENCE FOR 4. THIS VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME SINCE THE EVENT. >> AND TO BE CLEAR THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE OR INJURIES, SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE AT THIS POINT AGAIN A 5.2 MAGNITUDE SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BAKERSFIELD METEOROLOGISTS FEAR JIMENEZ WITH A LOOK AT THE MAP FOR US YEAH, THANK YOU MICAH HAS SO AS YOU GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE MAP THIS IS WHERE WE ARE THIS IS LA COUNTY. >> SO YOU HAVE TO TAKE A DRIVE UP THE I 5 THROUGH THE TO HIT THE REGION WHERE THAT EARTHQUAKE ACTUALLY STRUCK WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS MAP ANYTHING IN RED INDICATES THAT THESE EARTHQUAKES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE WITHIN THE LAST HOUR WHEN YOU SEE YELLOW ON THIS MAP THAT MEANS 12 HOURS AND GREEN PAST DAY IF YOU SEE A BLUE DOT THAT MEANS IT'S BEEN MUCH LONGER THAN THAT AND AS WE CONTINUE TO ZOOM IN DOCTOR LUCY JONES MENTIONED THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF AFTERSHOCKS THE ALREADY RECORDED AS YOU CAN SEE AGAIN MULTIPLE EARTHQUAKES AROUND THE AFTERSHOCKS I SHOULD SAY AROUND THE REGION AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CIRCLES THAT INDICATES THE MAGNITUDE SO THE SMALLER ONES INDICATE SMALLER MAGNITUDE OR LESSER MAGNITUDE. AND OF COURSE THE BIGGER THE CIRCLE. THE GREATER THE THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE MAX DOPPLER MAP AND I'LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU GUYS. >> ALL RIGHT THANK YOU ON THE PHONE WE HAVE LA FIRE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON MARGARET STEWART MARGARET GOOD OF YOU TO TAKE THE TIME WHAT CAN YOU TELL IN REGARDS TO THE LA FIRE DEPARTMENT AND WHAT YOU MAY BE DOING AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE NOTHING ELSE. >> AS YOU MENTIONED ALREADY WE YOU ENTER THE EARTHQUAKE LOAD. >> WHEN THERE IS A NOTICEABLE. CHECK OF EARTHQUAKE HERE. SO ALL OF OUR STATIONS ALL 106 GO OUT FIRST TO ENSURE THAT NONE OF OUR APPARATUS ARE TRAPPED INTO A FIRE STATION THE STORES ARE DAMAGED. EXCEPT SO THE FIRST CHECK IS TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN ALL SAFELY LEAVE THE FACILITY AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO CONDUCT A SURVEY THROUGH THEIR DISTRICT. THERE ARE SOME HAVE SPECIFICS INFRASTRUCTURE. WITHIN THEIR DISTRICT THAT THEY HAVE TO ENSURE THAT IS NOT DAMAGE. WHETHER IT'S FREEWAYS POWER. SCHOOLS, CETERA. SO THEY'RE GOING TO CONDUCT THAT SURVEY AND THEN THEY REPORT THROUGH THEIR BATTALION. AND IT HAPPENS ACROSS THE CITY AND ALL OF THOSE REPORTS. SHELTER UP THROUGH THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. SO THAT WE HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ANY POTENTIAL DAMAGE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. >> AND MARGARET THIS IS MARY BETH MCDADE HERE AS WELL AND JUST WONDERING AT THIS POINT IF YOU GUYS SEEN ANY DAMAGE AND ARE YOU ONLY ON THE GROUND ASSESSING ARE YOU GUYS ALSO UP IN THE AIR. >> SO FIRST FORTUNATELY WE HAVE NOT HAD REPORTS OF ANY DAMAGE IN COMPLETING THAT EARTHQUAKE MODE RIGHT NOW FOR THE FINAL REPORTS HAVE COME IN WITH NO DAMAGE. SO ALL RESOURCES ARE WHAT WE CALL REHOUSING. INTO THE STATION IN OUR AIR OFFICERS ALSO A PART OF THAT EARTHQUAKE MODE SURVEY. >> ALL RIGHT ALL GOOD NEWS TO REPORT FROM LA CITY FARRIOR MARGARET STEWART THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME AGAIN A 5.2 MAGNITUDE QUAKE ROUGHLY 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BAKERSFIELD. IT JUST AFTER 9 O'CLOCK TONIGHT IN AN AREA KNOWN AS METTLER YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR IF YOU DRIVE THE GRAPEVINE THAT JUST NORTH OF THE 5.99 SPLIT AS YOU'RE HEADING SO BE JUST WEST OF THE 5 FREEWAY. AGAIN NO REPORTS OF MAJOR DAMAGE OR INJURIES AT THIS POINT BUT CERTAINLY FELTON NERVES RATTLED ACROSS SOUTHERN IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY AND BEYOND WE EVEN FEEL THAT HERE IN THE NEWSROOM. WE ALL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER BUT FORTUNATELY NOTHING LIKE THEY