and he joins me now from the city of visalia. he joins me now from the city of visalia where william you are teing us it's something like 109°, another heat wave coming, tell us what it's like and are officials there prepared? >> judy, the technical term is it's unbelievably hod out here. the national weather service has issued a warning, through weekend, extreme heat alert. they are basically advising people, if you don't have to be outside, don't. stay in the shade, be inside if you can, drink plenty of water. the concern as of all of these heat waves is the illness and death. as you mentioned i don't think people have a real appreciation of how much heat waves cause death all over the world. it's the leading weather related killer when it comes to climate events. the pacific northwest heat wave which we just had which you mentioned killed hundreds of people. two years ago, in europe, which many don't remember, tens of thousands died in a heat wave there. same thing happened in 2003. so this is the ongoing concern that we see m

in visalia and even las vegas. ian cole has the latest video for us and the reaction near the epicenter. >> reporter: when the 6.0 earthquake hit, scott captured this video at the epicenter of coleville. boulders have a lamplging down from the centennial bluff, picking up dust while crashing down. >> the ground itself seemed to shake extensively and it might be because of the granite being here in high desert country. it is not absorbed like in other parts of the bay area so i think that made it that much more scarier. you can literally see the ground moving. >> reporter: he is the manager of the koa camp ground there. >> it only went about ten seconds but having lived through many earthquakes in the bay area, it certainly seemed like a long time. >> it was an earthquake. the tires went a little funny. >> reporter: another video showing hillside rumbling. some drivers had to steer around boulders on highway 395. the usgs said it is the strongest quake to hit the antelope valley fault since 1994. >> shaking was felt

he joins me now from the city of visalia.g us it is something like 109 degrees, another heat wave coming. tell us what it is like, and our officials there prepared? william: the technical term is it is unbelievably hot. the national weather service issued a warning that starting today through the weekend, there is an extreme heat alert and they are basically advising people that if you don't have to be outside, don't, and if you do, stay in the shade. be inside if you can and drink plenty of water. the concern, as with all of these heat waves is the illness and death. as you mentioned, i don't think people hava real appreciation of how much he waves cause death all over the world. -- heat waves cause of death all over the world. it is the number one killer when it comes to climate events. the pacific northwest heatwave we just had killed hundreds of people. a couple of years ago in europe, tens of thousands of people died in a heatwave there. same thing in 2003. this is the ongoing concern, that we see more of these events an

and as far south as visalia, california. shaking related effects that we've so far include rock fall along highway 3.95 near coalville. that's right. near the epicenter of the earthquake. the earthquake is the result of normal it's a pretty well understood unexpected mechanism for an earthquake at the eastern boundary of the sierra nevada mountains. in the region that and in which it happened. early warning system shake alert. detective the earthquake. 25.6 seconds after its origin system underestimated the original night to that event has made a location that was slightly off from the true location that meant that as the waves propagated across the state. other stations miss registered the several different shake alerts were sent for a base in different areas and people who joined in visit our site upon feeling it really early. will have seen multiple different events show up sort of simultaneously. this is a fairly common thing that happens at the beginning as our instruments are just detecting automatically sending signal

shaking was felt quite widely from san francisco to east of carson city in nevada and as far south as visalia, california. >> this chandelier rocking back and forth in brentwood. >> i thought it was just me. >> reporter: others didn't at all. he wasn't impressed, but she was sitting in a classroom. >> yes, we are, of course. who is not going to be. like she got us, dropped her bag and phone, do we have to go out? >> it was little vibrations. it was nothing. >> reporter: for burkhart and the campers in coleville they'll try to rest after quite the afternoon. >> nobody was hurt, no injuries, no damage, a few uneasy guests that aren't used to earthquakes so we're keeping them calm and moving them to different parts of the property. >> reporter: the usgs reported more than 40 aftershocks. geologists say the chance the antelope valley fault will have a larger earthquake in the coming days is around 6%. ian cull, nbc bay area news. >>> we track the follow-up from the quake and numerous aftershocks. head to nbcbayarea.com for the latest updates on this earthquake when we're not on the air. >>> new d

far this is stretching, the shake intensity map here and you will notice it was felt all the way to visalia, all the way up toward chico, reno, susanville here or there were some reports out toward the monterey, southern monterey, san benito county area. we are looking at some of these regions here, and it was quite a stretch here that we're talking about that felt it, so it was not just here in the bay area. it was felt quite a distance, and once again, showing you that nap. you can see how far reaching that large earthquake was, the 5.9, and that is considered a sizable earthquake, moderate to strong. some property damage to damage likely when you are between a five and six, and i think this is just a reminder to all of us to have our earthquake bags ready. go to abc7news.com. we have information on how you can prepare for earthquakes. we live in earthquake country . we have heard this before, and anyone who lived through, and i know many of us did, that '89 earthquake , this is really one of those reminders. it's a traumatic experience for so many of us that we were here in 1989 during t

. >> san francisco to the east of carson city, nevada and south is visalia, california. shaking related effects that we've heard of so far include rock fall along highway 3.95 near coalville. that's right. near the the earthquake. the earthquake is the result of normal it's a pretty well understood unexpected mechanism for. boundary of the sierra nevada mountains in the region that and in which it happened. early warning system. or detected the earthquake. 25.6 seconds after its origin. underestimated the original night to that event and that was slightly off from the true location. but man, that has the waves propagated across the state. other stations miss register. take alerts were sent for a base in different areas. joined in visit our site upon feeling it really early. will. multiple different events show up sort of simultaneously. this is a fairly common thing are instruments are just detecting automatically sending signals from these earthquakes. so it's something that's somewhat to be expected. >> we apologize for the audio that was cutting in and out on intervie