ESPN’s Malika Andrews was interviewing basketball analyst Rebecca Lobo on-air Monday afternoon, after which an earthquake shook issues up.
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake hit Los Angeles at 12:20 p.m., and the “NBA Right now” host stayed calm and picked up inside ESPN’s studios in L.A. The 29-year-old’s response in actual time triggered an avalanche of kudos on social media.
The quake jostled cameras and jolted the construction, giving anybody who has skilled a tremor conflicting sensations of wonderment and dysfunction.
“We now have a little bit of an earthquake right here in Los Angeles,” Andrews stated, pausing the interview. “So we’re simply going to guarantee that our studio lights [and] every part stays protected. All the things is shaking.”
Andrews’ physique language was of somebody smoothing over a minor ruckus, her voice soothing as she requested co-workers in the event that they have been OK. The shaking lasted only some seconds, and she or he deftly returned to the video name with Lobo, who understandably wore an incredulous expression. That they had been speaking concerning the U.S. ladies’s basketball group’s gold medal win over France on the Paris Olympics.
“Positively a scary second right here in our LA studios,” Andrews tweeted. “Thanks to our unimaginable workers and crew who stayed cool all through.”
Little doubt Andrews’ cool saved the temperature from rising. No casualties or important injury to buildings have been reported as of two:30 p.m.
