Newsdeck: Big quake rattles area of 20 million people in California; no one killed

The 6.4 magnitude quake, the most powerful in Southern California in 25 years, struck about 113 miles northeast of Los Angeles near the city of Ridgecrest at around 10:30 a.m. PDT , according to the U.S. Geological Survey . The epicenter was on the edge of Death Valley National Park.

Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was being evacuated and patients were being moved to other locations for fear of a powerful aftershock, she said. About 15 patients were moved, local media said, citing fire officials. The quake is the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said. That quake, which was centered in a heavily populated area of Los Angeles, killed 57 people and caused billions of dollars of damage.USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said more than 80 aftershocks had hit the area in the hours since the initial quake.

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