Earthquake: Mother Earth is powerful ‘and there’s nothing you can do about it. Nothing’

Holmes lives in Riverside, California. She’s Hopi, Yavapai Apache and Laguna. The last time she felt an earthquake of this magnitude was decades ago. She was home when the quake hit.

Varenchik was enjoying a movie when the building started moving.

Both women say their families were not harmed in this quake.Both are rethinking a family emergency plan that includes a good way to communicate during such emergencies. The area is still experiencing aftershocks with nearly 1,000 aftershocks recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Service’s earthquake tracker. Federal funds were allocated for the area but no tribes in either San Bernardino or Kern Counties were affected by the earthquakes.