Earthquake in California News Coverage

Today, a small earthquake occurred in California, in the Los Angeles area. Here is how three different TV networks covered the story.

NBC News: Monday, March 17th, 12:00 P.M. PST

NBC News covered the story by showing video footage of  people in gas stations in Encino, California reacting to the earthquake. In addition, some of these people were interviewed as well. A total of three Encino residents were interviewed. The first person, a woman who worked at one of the gas stations, was shown inside the gas station shop at 6:22 A.M. PST, when the whole shop started to shake. The woman, when interviewed, admitted, that she was very scared, and thought that a car had smashed into the station. The second person interviewed, a man who worked at another gas station down the street, was shown running out of the station’s shop with two customers, right after the whole shop began to shake. The third person interviewed, a male customer at one of the gas stations (unfortunately not specified), explains that he usually sleeps through earthquakes, but this one he felt occurring when his whole house was shaking.

CNN: Monday, March 17th, 1:45 P.M. EST

CNN covered the story by showing video footage of two news anchors on Los Angeles TV station KTLA at 6:57 A.M. PST. The anchors are about to give the morning’s news when all of a sudden, the news room begins to shake. The two anchors then duck down under the table at which they are sitting at. This video footage is then shown once more.

CBS News: Monday, March 17th, 7:30 A.M. PST

CBS News covered the story by first showing video footage of four news anchors in their news studio at 6:25 A.M. PST. The news room begins to shake, but instead of ducking down under the news table at which they were sitting at, the anchors still sit at the table, looking around the shaking room. One of the anchors was then interviewed, sharing his experience of what had happened.