RANCHO PALACE VERDES IS GENE KANG KTLA 5 NEWS. DID YOU FEEL IT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SHAKES FOLLOWING A MAGNITUDE 4.9 EARTHQUAKE FELT FROM LOS ANGELES ALL THE WAY TO LAS VEGAS. >> THE USGS SAYS THE EARTHQUAKE HIT AT 01:00PM WITH PERCENT OR ROUGHLY 13 MILES NORTH EAST OF BARSTOW IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY I FEEL IT WAS A LITTLE SHIFT AT MY HOUSE LITTLE BIT OF NOISE. KTLA SHELBY NELSON NOW JOINING US LIVE AT UC RIVERSIDE. >> WITH MORE ON TODAY'S QUICK SHELBY. >> THAT'S RIGHT AND RIGHT WHEN IT HAPPENED WE WERE SEEING THOSE PRELIMINARY REPORTS COMING OUT ABOUT HOW LARGE THIS QUAKE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE BUZZING ON EXE WHERE THEY FELT IT SOME PEOPLE EVEN AS FAR AS BIGGEST, BUT EXPERTS SAY THAT THEY BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED ON THE CALICO FAULT, WHICH CROSSES OVER THROUGH THE MOJAVE DESERT NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THIS VIDEO THAT CAME INTO OUR NEWSROOM LITTLE BIT OF SHAKING YOU SEE THERE ON THOSE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS AT BARSTOW STATION LIQUOR, A WATER BOTTLE FALLS OFF THE SHELF LUCKILY, NOT MUCH DAMAGE THIS RATTLING WASN'T TOO BAD. BUT THE QUAKE WAS REPORTED AS A MAGNITUDE 4.9 WITH THE DEPTH OF JUST UNDER 5 MILES NOW LET'S SHOW YOU A MAP THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE THE EPICENTER OF THIS QUAKE WAS THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS IT HAPPENED AT 01:00PM ROUGHLY 30 MILES NORTH EAST OF BARSTOW IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. IT WAS FIRST REPORTED AS A MAGNITUDE 5.1 BUT QUICKLY DOWNGRADED FROM THAT SCIENTISTS LOOK AT SIMILAR EVENTS WITH A MAGNITUDE 4 IN GREATER WITHIN ABOUT A 6 MILE SPAN OF THEIR THEY SAY THEY'VE HAD 22 SIMILAR INCIDENTS SINCE 1932, THE LARGEST BEING A MAGNITUDE 5.3 QUAKE IN 97. NOW WE JUST HAVE THE CHANCE TO SPEAK TO UC RIVERSIDE, PROFESSOR OF SEISMOLOGY GARRETT FUNDING WHO WEIGHED IN ON WHAT THIS COULD MEAN. >> IT'S NOT A VERY BIG EARTHQUAKE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS IOT ABOUT SO WILL BE FELT REASONABLY, BUT IT WON'T CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE REGIONALLY ONE THING WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL OVER IS TO DISMISS THE. THE POSSIBILITY THAT THAT COULD BE A LOT YOU WANT TO FOLLOW ABOUT ONE IN 10 TIMES WE HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE OF THAT SIZE THAT'S FOLLOWED BY A LOUD ONE. >> THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN KERN COUNTY WITH THE RIDGECREST EARTHQUAKE UP 2019 PROFESSOR FUNDING SAYS THIS IS A GOOD REMINDER. >> IT'S A KIND OF A A WAKE-UP CALL IN A WAY THAT OR REMINDER THAT WE LIVE IN AN COUNTRY AND WE REALLY WANT TO BE TAKING MEASURES TO PREPARE EARTHQUAKES. >> AND THAT OF COURSE ALWAYS MEANS TO HAVE WATER FOOD FOR SEVERAL DAYS IN ADVANCE JUST IN CASE AN EMERGENCY SITUATION WERE TO HAPPEN YOU'RE PREPARED AND HAVE MEDICAL DOCUMENTS ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE GOING