BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — There were several food and gas station workers who were still awake and working close to the epicenter when the quake hit.
In Mettler, late night workers reported that the 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook the city for around 5 minutes.
5.2 Mettler earthquake rattles Kern County
“I felt the tremor but then I’m thinking it’s gonna stop but it didn’t, so it kept going and that’s when the TV came down, then I’m like, oh god, is it gonna last longer, it was pretty scary,” Shell worker Sandra Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez was getting ready to come to work at a shell gas station, where she and her sister both work, and when the quake hit, her sister was already at the Shell. “I had to call my sister because she was here at work, to see how she was doing, some of the things fell, she was pretty scared too.”
Down the road, In-N-Out employees also felt the quake.
“I was working inside y’know just wrapping some burgers and then everything started shaking, everyone’s kinda turning heads, it just kinda got weird for a second,” In-N-Out employee, Joshua Kirby said.