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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know Alex Stone. ABC News is joining us now.
And first of all, Alex, hope you had some Were
you actually off last week or was it?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, we had the content spring break. We were we
were in d C. And Gettysburg and New York and
we're roaming around. Oh well, I miss you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I mean I didn't miss you at all.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But but yet no, of course I missed you.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now you didn't miss I mean we equal work on
this level, so you didn't miss that ever, But physically,
like the actual people, you may have thought like, yeah,
I don't know. It's just one of those things like
I never know, because sometimes you may or may not
be off, but you're just not, you know, doing any
of the stuff that they're offering for the day or.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What or so today he's double fisted with stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well yeah, okay, Well that just means you have one
in each hand, is what. Yeah, came came through wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
What do you mean a gutter mine? Man, I'm just
talking about the guy coming in with both to talk about.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. I know that you are, yeah, covering a couple things,
but I wanted to find out because you were like
mister earthquake. I mean, and I say that, and you're
probably going, well, wait a minute, but I don't really
know anybody else in California, So to me, you're you
know that, but five point two magnitude southern California, that
(01:26):
that's pretty Is that a decent size?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, it's a decent size.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Quake definitely has mean. It triggered all the earthquake alerts today.
And we didn't end up feeling it in La. They
definitely did in San Diego. I was talking to San
Diego police lieutenant who he was all shaken up right
after it hit, and they it was pretty violent in
San Diego, and they didn't know at the time, but
that we now know that there's no major damage. There
(01:50):
was like a liquor store in the town of Julian
where the epicenter was, where all the bottles fell on
the floor and some rocks came down on roads, but
but nothing major. But I did alert and we definitely
got it. There's now video that's airing on TV affiliates
all over the place of us jumping under our desks
from an earthquake camera that we've gotten in the newsroom.
A little embarrassing. I was actually the slow, bad child
(02:12):
getting yelled at to get under my desk, and I
was very slow and I look like I'm pouting, and
then I get under. But then we never felt any shaking,
So you know, I mean there's almost this question now
of what's better to have that warning, where the argument
is you could take action and save your life. Oh,
you know, surgeons can stop surgery, trains can slow down.
(02:33):
But you got the other part of it that you're
sitting there and you've been warned in like ten or
twenty seconds, so your life may end, you know, and
you're waiting, and you're waiting and nothing comes, and nothing comes,
and in our case, and we didn't end up feeling anything.
But you know, because earthquakes are like throwing a rock
into a lake and then ripples going out, that if
you're right at the epicenter, you're not gonna get any warning.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But when it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Reads the earthquake, it can immediately calculate where those waves
are going to go, and then you'll get a little
bit of warning. And if you're far enough away from
the epicenter, you can get twenty thirty seconds of warning.
And the app the new system that comes in like
an amber alert, but the app will tell you in
twenty seconds heavy shaking is coming, and so you know
you've got twenty seconds to get under something and get ready.
(03:17):
But I know at home now with our kids that
it's happened a couple of times and then we don't
feel anything, and it triggers because it thinks you're gonna
feel something but you didn't, and it almost freaks.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Them out more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, you're almost like it should have just had
a quake and not known about it. Then to get
twenty seconds of warning and you everybody braces and holds
on and then there's nothing there, and yeah, the kind
of damage is done.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I've never heard of the I mean, never even thought
about really earthquakes traveling like it starts in San Diego,
Does it go nor I'd never.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Get I mean, just like a throwing a rock into
a lake and you've got where it hits into the
water and then.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It grows out there.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah yeah, No.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And Tijuana they evacuated the bunch of their buildings today
and that everybody's okay down there as well, because that
Tijan is just on the other side of it. It's essentially
part of San Diego. You go right from San Diego
across the border into Tijuana with except for a wall,
a little bit of separation between the two. And yeah,
and now there's the question, was this a four shock
(04:12):
something bigger. We talked to a seismologist, Elizabeth Cochrane. She says, well,
there's always a chance this was a four shock to
something bigger that's coming soon, and that's fairly typical anytime
we have an earthquake, we have about a five to
ten percent chance of a larger event. So it's not
a huge deal, like five to ten percent, but that
this may have been a four shock. There was a
four shock earlier today, a three point one, which that
(04:34):
one is kind of like, well, people felt it, but
it was no big deal. They didn't know at the
time that that was a four shock to something bigger
that was coming mid morning today. So we'll wait, we'll
see what goes on tonight. But luckily everybody's doing all right.
No major damage.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A couple observations one and it's a damn shame that
liquor was falling on the floor.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Probably I know, right, just shattering everywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, it wasn't the high end.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, well, you're just hoping that that McAll and eighteen
stay somehow, some way did not.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Smell it out of the expensive stuff behind glass, because well,
I guess that wouldn't help in an earthquake either behind
something plastic that isn't going to shatter.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, exactly. And the other thing was that warning system
that you're talking about, Like you don't have something specifically
in your home that's dedicated for, like something on.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The wall or no, it's on your phone kind of
like an amber alerting. Okay, so it makes the amber
alert sound, you know that sound, and you look and
it says earthquake, earthquake. There's also some apps out there
that will actually say that that you're sitting there and
it goes earthquake, duck and cover, take cover, earthquake, duck
and cover.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Take.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean, it scares the you know what out of you,
and you look at it and go, oh, man, here
it comes, and you wait, and quite often you do
feel least a little something, if not a major or something.
And then sometimes the waves don't get to you, don't
reach all the way to you, and you don't feel anything.
But man, you are sitting there totally tight, you know,
muscles tight, waiting for everything to begin. Shaking.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Having that is a ring tone is not funny.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
There, No, no, you don't want to do that now.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I can't help, but wonder too, maybe with your interviews
that you conduct on this story. We've got what is
it on a wahuo, We've got lava spouting for the
past few days, and there was somewhere else where, we've
got mile high columns of smoke coming out of a
volcanic activity, and then we have this. I just my
gut wonders, is all this stuff somewhere in the middle
of the earth related? You know, it's all want to
(06:24):
make you wonder.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
All the geologists and seismologists have told us no and
that it's all just random. This was on part of
the San Andreas fault system. You know, there's tons of
different fault systems. This was on the one we all
know San Andreas and a famous one where they've made
so many movies about it. But they say it's totally random,
and yeah, this one won't be connected to the one
that happens a month from now or the one after that.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But but you do have.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
To wonder if somewhere beyond what we understand and what
we know, if there's there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, if Christopher Reeves were still alive, we could have
them fly backwards, you know, really quickly and reverse the
everything of it. Yeah, with the San Andreas.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
He had one weak moment where he broke the rules
and you have to bring it up on the radio.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Hey, do they one quickly? Because I know we've got
to cut you loose. But do they in San Diego?
Is are they used to him there? Or do you
get them more? Would you say in La or is
it just kind of random?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Also the same?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean every yeah, maybe every six months, you'll
feel a little tiny one, and then you'll go years
where you don't feel one, and then you'll get a
sizable one. I mean, it's just totally random. But it's
been I don't know, probably a year since the last
time we felt. But they were always little. I think
we've talked about him on the air, you know, they've
always been They've always been, for the most part, pretty little.
But then every now and then you get a big one.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Alex Stone, ABC News, Well have I heard that one before?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You said? There?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, every once in a while you get a big one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, Alex, thank you very much. I appreciate. I see you.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You ever felt an earthquake in Central Ohio because we've
had like four, I think in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Not in Central Ohio, but when Jenny and I were
in Los Cabos, we were just in Mexico last year September,
there was one in that ended up getting there, and
it was I felt it and Jenny felt it, and
I was trying to like make it to where, you know,
like I was gonna talk about it on the air
when it was like, yeah, we were getting it on
(08:14):
and I was like, she's like, did you feel that earthquake?
And I'm like, yeah, of course you did, honey, you
know and all. But there was like no way to
make a joke about it because I was like, it
really happened, and something had happened somewhere near because we're
in the Baja Peninsula there. Los Cabos is it's basically
California southern, like far far southern, you know, and there
(08:35):
was one there, but I've never felt one here. But
that was the first time I felt like.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We had one when I was like, I don't know,
nine or ten years old, and I did not feel
it at all. I was in the backyard. I just
remember hearing Mom and the house go a lot when
things started shaking, and she's told told stories for weeks
about how the glasses were all shaken in the china
cabinet and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I feel the earth move under
Speaker 3 (08:57):
My Carol King just called and said stop up.
You know Alex Stone. ABC News is joining us now.
And first of all, Alex, hope you had some Were
you actually off last week or was it?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, we had the content spring break. We were we
were in d C. And Gettysburg and New York and
we're roaming around. Oh well, I miss you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I mean I didn't miss you at all.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But but yet no, of course I missed you.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now you didn't miss I mean we equal work on
this level, so you didn't miss that ever, But physically,
like the actual people, you may have thought like, yeah,
I don't know. It's just one of those things like
I never know, because sometimes you may or may not
be off, but you're just not, you know, doing any
of the stuff that they're offering for the day or.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What or so today he's double fisted with stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well yeah, okay, Well that just means you have one
in each hand, is what. Yeah, came came through wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
What do you mean a gutter mine? Man, I'm just
talking about the guy coming in with both to talk about.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. I know that you are, yeah, covering a couple things,
but I wanted to find out because you were like
mister earthquake. I mean, and I say that, and you're
probably going, well, wait a minute, but I don't really
know anybody else in California, So to me, you're you
know that, but five point two magnitude southern California, that
(01:26):
that's pretty Is that a decent size?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, it's a decent size.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Quake definitely has mean. It triggered all the earthquake alerts today.
And we didn't end up feeling it in La. They
definitely did in San Diego. I was talking to San
Diego police lieutenant who he was all shaken up right
after it hit, and they it was pretty violent in
San Diego, and they didn't know at the time, but
that we now know that there's no major damage. There
(01:50):
was like a liquor store in the town of Julian
where the epicenter was, where all the bottles fell on
the floor and some rocks came down on roads, but
but nothing major. But I did alert and we definitely
got it. There's now video that's airing on TV affiliates
all over the place of us jumping under our desks
from an earthquake camera that we've gotten in the newsroom.
A little embarrassing. I was actually the slow, bad child
(02:12):
getting yelled at to get under my desk, and I
was very slow and I look like I'm pouting, and
then I get under. But then we never felt any shaking,
So you know, I mean there's almost this question now
of what's better to have that warning, where the argument
is you could take action and save your life. Oh,
you know, surgeons can stop surgery, trains can slow down.
(02:33):
But you got the other part of it that you're
sitting there and you've been warned in like ten or
twenty seconds, so your life may end, you know, and
you're waiting, and you're waiting and nothing comes, and nothing comes,
and in our case, and we didn't end up feeling anything.
But you know, because earthquakes are like throwing a rock
into a lake and then ripples going out, that if
you're right at the epicenter, you're not gonna get any warning.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But when it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Reads the earthquake, it can immediately calculate where those waves
are going to go, and then you'll get a little
bit of warning. And if you're far enough away from
the epicenter, you can get twenty thirty seconds of warning.
And the app the new system that comes in like
an amber alert, but the app will tell you in
twenty seconds heavy shaking is coming, and so you know
you've got twenty seconds to get under something and get ready.
(03:17):
But I know at home now with our kids that
it's happened a couple of times and then we don't
feel anything, and it triggers because it thinks you're gonna
feel something but you didn't, and it almost freaks.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Them out more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, you're almost like it should have just had
a quake and not known about it. Then to get
twenty seconds of warning and you everybody braces and holds
on and then there's nothing there, and yeah, the kind
of damage is done.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I've never heard of the I mean, never even thought
about really earthquakes traveling like it starts in San Diego,
Does it go nor I'd never.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Get I mean, just like a throwing a rock into
a lake and you've got where it hits into the
water and then.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It grows out there.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah yeah, No.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And Tijuana they evacuated the bunch of their buildings today
and that everybody's okay down there as well, because that
Tijan is just on the other side of it. It's essentially
part of San Diego. You go right from San Diego
across the border into Tijuana with except for a wall,
a little bit of separation between the two. And yeah,
and now there's the question, was this a four shock
(04:12):
something bigger. We talked to a seismologist, Elizabeth Cochrane. She says, well,
there's always a chance this was a four shock to
something bigger that's coming soon, and that's fairly typical anytime
we have an earthquake, we have about a five to
ten percent chance of a larger event. So it's not
a huge deal, like five to ten percent, but that
this may have been a four shock. There was a
four shock earlier today, a three point one, which that
(04:34):
one is kind of like, well, people felt it, but
it was no big deal. They didn't know at the
time that that was a four shock to something bigger
that was coming mid morning today. So we'll wait, we'll
see what goes on tonight. But luckily everybody's doing all right.
No major damage.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A couple observations one and it's a damn shame that
liquor was falling on the floor.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Probably I know, right, just shattering everywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, it wasn't the high end.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, well, you're just hoping that that McAll and eighteen
stay somehow, some way did not.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Smell it out of the expensive stuff behind glass, because well,
I guess that wouldn't help in an earthquake either behind
something plastic that isn't going to shatter.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, exactly. And the other thing was that warning system
that you're talking about, Like you don't have something specifically
in your home that's dedicated for, like something on.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The wall or no, it's on your phone kind of
like an amber alerting. Okay, so it makes the amber
alert sound, you know that sound, and you look and
it says earthquake, earthquake. There's also some apps out there
that will actually say that that you're sitting there and
it goes earthquake, duck and cover, take cover, earthquake, duck
and cover.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Take.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean, it scares the you know what out of you,
and you look at it and go, oh, man, here
it comes, and you wait, and quite often you do
feel least a little something, if not a major or something.
And then sometimes the waves don't get to you, don't
reach all the way to you, and you don't feel anything.
But man, you are sitting there totally tight, you know,
muscles tight, waiting for everything to begin. Shaking.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Having that is a ring tone is not funny.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
There, No, no, you don't want to do that now.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I can't help, but wonder too, maybe with your interviews
that you conduct on this story. We've got what is
it on a wahuo, We've got lava spouting for the
past few days, and there was somewhere else where, we've
got mile high columns of smoke coming out of a
volcanic activity, and then we have this. I just my
gut wonders, is all this stuff somewhere in the middle
of the earth related? You know, it's all want to
(06:24):
make you wonder.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
All the geologists and seismologists have told us no and
that it's all just random. This was on part of
the San Andreas fault system. You know, there's tons of
different fault systems. This was on the one we all
know San Andreas and a famous one where they've made
so many movies about it. But they say it's totally random,
and yeah, this one won't be connected to the one
that happens a month from now or the one after that.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But but you do have.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
To wonder if somewhere beyond what we understand and what
we know, if there's there's something going on.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, if Christopher Reeves were still alive, we could have
them fly backwards, you know, really quickly and reverse the
everything of it. Yeah, with the San Andreas.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
He had one weak moment where he broke the rules
and you have to bring it up on the radio.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Hey, do they one quickly? Because I know we've got
to cut you loose. But do they in San Diego?
Is are they used to him there? Or do you
get them more? Would you say in La or is
it just kind of random?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Also the same?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean every yeah, maybe every six months, you'll
feel a little tiny one, and then you'll go years
where you don't feel one, and then you'll get a
sizable one. I mean, it's just totally random. But it's
been I don't know, probably a year since the last
time we felt. But they were always little. I think
we've talked about him on the air, you know, they've
always been They've always been, for the most part, pretty little.
But then every now and then you get a big one.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Alex Stone, ABC News, Well have I heard that one before?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You said? There?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, every once in a while you get a big one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, Alex, thank you very much. I appreciate. I see you.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You ever felt an earthquake in Central Ohio because we've
had like four, I think in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Not in Central Ohio, but when Jenny and I were
in Los Cabos, we were just in Mexico last year September,
there was one in that ended up getting there, and
it was I felt it and Jenny felt it, and
I was trying to like make it to where, you know,
like I was gonna talk about it on the air
when it was like, yeah, we were getting it on
(08:14):
and I was like, she's like, did you feel that earthquake?
And I'm like, yeah, of course you did, honey, you
know and all. But there was like no way to
make a joke about it because I was like, it
really happened, and something had happened somewhere near because we're
in the Baja Peninsula there. Los Cabos is it's basically
California southern, like far far southern, you know, and there
(08:35):
was one there, but I've never felt one here. But
that was the first time I felt like.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
We had one when I was like, I don't know,
nine or ten years old, and I did not feel
it at all. I was in the backyard. I just
remember hearing Mom and the house go a lot when
things started shaking, and she's told told stories for weeks
about how the glasses were all shaken in the china
cabinet and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I feel the earth move under
Speaker 3 (08:57):
My Carol King just called and said stop up.
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