00:00 Tomás, thank you. Right now, 71 years ago today, the dust was settling from a 7.3 magnitude quake that devastated the town of Tehachapi, leaving 12 people dead, including nine children.
00:12 The Tehachapi Heritage Museum has numerous artifacts, pictures and stories preserved from the fifth largest quake in California history.
00:20 That temblor erupted along the White Wolf Fault line at 4.52 a.m.
00:25 Now, in addition to those killed, 18 people were injured with an estimated $50 million in damage.
00:31 23ABC caught up with dozens of survivors back on the 50th anniversary in 2002 who shared some of their stories from that day.
00:40 I hit the wall, I run outside, and I seen the ground waving. Dogs are barking, I hear a couple women screaming.
00:50 I went into the hotel and one of my brothers fell underneath the bricks and there was a guy underneath the bricks and he said that was the weirdest feeling.
00:59 Now, it would be a month later that a 5.8 magnitude aftershock devastated downtown Bakersfield.
