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Cable News coverage of California Earthquake: where is it?

EnigmaO01

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I guess the major cable news networks go on vacation on the holidays? Everybody just goes home or something? I napped through the initial reports on the quake and when I tried to get more information -- nothing. Folks a 6.4 is not a mild earthquake and with a chance of a stronger one is big news.

It was like watching them on Sunday today!
 
I checked. They just reported it.
 
Finally? I viewed all the major cable news networks for at least an hour and half -- nothing. Fox News personalities was playing some kind of stupid card game. Probably pre-recorded as was MSNBC with Rachel Maddow about the census fight debacle which aired last night.
 
Drudge Report had it up within about half an hour of it happening. My wife and I felt it here. Shook us up, but nothing fell from the walls.
 
The epicenter was somewhere out in the desert, nobody apparently died. It wasn't a big enough news story for the news channels to allocate money for crews/satellite fees and other associated costs. It got plenty of coverage on the local media and internet. With the cable news channels, it's all about profit margins these days.
 
If Trump could be blamed it would be on all day.
 
It was on FOX a little over an hour ago. Person who gave the news conference said there will probably be stronger ones coming soon. Scary.
 
Any looting yet?
 
Both CNN and MSNBC had continuing coverage of the quake.
 
holbritter said:
It was on FOX a little over an hour ago. Person who gave the news conference said there will probably be stronger ones coming soon. Scary.
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Yeah, they had about 80 or more after shocks. We are glad everyone is relatively safe.
 
EnigmaO01 said:
I guess the major cable news networks go on vacation on the holidays? Everybody just goes home or something? I napped through the initial reports on the quake and when I tried to get more information -- nothing. Folks a 6.4 is not a mild earthquake and with a chance of a stronger one is big news.

It was like watching them on Sunday today!
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That's a good quake. It's south so we didn't know it hit: I saw it on Huffington Post. Not watching regular TV so, I have no idea. I'm sure it'll be all over the place this evening when people get home.
 
EnigmaO01 said:
I guess the major cable news networks go on vacation on the holidays? Everybody just goes home or something? I napped through the initial reports on the quake and when I tried to get more information -- nothing. Folks a 6.4 is not a mild earthquake and with a chance of a stronger one is big news.

It was like watching them on Sunday today!
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A 6.4 temblor on a ten mile long fault 130 miles away from the nearest major city just isn't going to generate that much coverage. I live seven miles East of downtown Los Angeles and all I noticed was that my wife's ceiling lift (she's a wheelchair user) was gently rocking back and forth almost imperceptibly two minutes after my wife woke me to let me know there had been a quake.

People in the tiny town of Ridgecrest experienced the maximum damaging effects because it happened right under them.
Anyone more than 50 miles away only felt a gentle swaying or rolling.

LA Times story WITH VIDEO

Also, since most California buildings have been either retrofitted or built to exceed 1994 Northridge Quake standards and most buildings in Indiana have not, had a 4.6 temblor happened in Terre Haute, much of Terre Haute would be reduced to rubble, and there would be numerous fatalities.

Last but not least, renowned USGS scientist Dr. Lucy Jones made it clear that the fault line in Ridgecrest had no connection whatsoever with any of the major fault lines in California, including the infamous San Andreas Fault, which is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California.

Preparedness and vigilance is key to surviving an earthquake but even having said that, there's no point in covering something which is simply not there, and what's not there is any notion that we're about to "have The Big One" because that is a permanent advisory until that happens, and not a statement connected to the Searles Valley Quake that happened this morning.
 
EnigmaO01 said:
I guess the major cable news networks go on vacation on the holidays? Everybody just goes home or something? I napped through the initial reports on the quake and when I tried to get more information -- nothing. Folks a 6.4 is not a mild earthquake and with a chance of a stronger one is big news.

It was like watching them on Sunday today!
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Uh, I saw extensive coverage on CNN, guess you didn't watch.
 
gulfman said:
If Trump could be blamed it would be on all day.
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If Fox had reported it as being Hillarys fault, the Adorables would have bought it, hook, line and sinker.
 
Gamewell45 said:
Three Cactus plants and a rattlesnake skin were reportedly looted from the epicenter area. :)
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There has been one death reported associated with the first earthquake. A Pahrump, Nevada man was apparently working under his jeep, which was up on jacks at the time, when the quake hit. It threw the jeep off the jacks and crushed the man.

Talk about unlucky.
 
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