2 people are dead, 11 injured after 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California

A 6.4 magnitude struck Northern California's Eureka area early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey , leaving at least two people dead, drawing reports of damage to roads and homes, shaking residents from their sleep and .

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 2:34 a.m. PT, was in the Pacific about 15 miles from Fortuna, a city of in Humboldt County, part of California's forested Redwood Coast. Fortuna is near Eureka and about a 280-mile drive northwest of Sacramento.

At least two people are dead "as a result of medical emergencies" during and after the earthquake, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office. Eleven injuries were reported.

More than three dozen smaller quakes -- as powerful as a 4.6 magnitude -- struck the area afterward, the survey . Tuesday's temblor after a 6.2 magnitude quake struck just off Humboldt County's Cape Mendocino on December 20, 2021, and caused minor damage to buildings in the area.

Most homes and businesses in Humboldt County were without power early Tuesday. Nearly 70,000 outages were reported as of about 1 p.m. PT -- out of 99,000 customers tracked in the county -- according to utility tracker .

"Widespread damages to roads and homes" were being reported throughout Humboldt County, the county sheriff's office Tuesday morning on Twitter. At least two people were injured, the sheriff's office said.

Wendy Pickett Monolias awoke to the shaking in Eureka.

"Once the shaking finally stopped, we got our flashlights and phones and looked around. Everything was in shambles," Pickett Monolias said. "Things you wouldn't expect to have fallen over or broken did. An entire cabinet in the bathroom fell over and broke apart."

The quake spilled a number of items to the floor of Caroline Titus' Ferndale-area home, a video she r shows. "This was a big one. Power is out now. House is a big mess," Titus wrote.

Northeast of Ferndale, the temblor damaged part of the Fernbridge, which carries State Route 211 over the Eel River, .

Part of the road at the bridge was cracked, an image tweeted by the California Department of Transportation showed.

"The bridge is closed while we conduct safety inspections due to possible seismic damage," the tweet reads.

In downtown Fortuna, some storefront windows were shattered, and people were putting up boards to fill the gaps on a rainy Tuesday morning, shows.

The main quake produced at least some shaking from coastal Oregon to south of San Jose, California, public collected by the survey show.

It poses no tsunami threat, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

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