Ridgecrest earthquake video: Parents, kids scream as 6.4-magnitude quake rattles stage during July 4th performance

Friday, July 5, 2019
RIDGECREST, Calif. -- Video shows the moment of panic and confusion when a massive earthquake interrupted a children's performance on July 4th.

Photographer Yari Mower was in the audience filming during a July 4th children's program in Ridgecrest, California, when the ground began shaking with the strongest earthquake that Southern California has seen in 20 years.
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"I'm still shaken but feeling very blessed we are ok and praying for our community," Mower wrote on Facebook.
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The earthquake's power rattled nerves and made for several harrowing videos like these, but only minor injuries were reported.

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