John Callanan of the Napa Valley Fire Department told reporters that the department was responding to about six structure fires, including one involving a half-dozen mobile homes.
Source/Credit: ABC News
By Good Morning America | Aug 24, 2014
Northern California was shaken awake this morning by its strongest earthquake in 25 years, a jolt that damaged historic buildings and hurt dozens of people, including a young child critically injured by a crumbling fireplace.
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency after the South Napa Earthquake, which struck about 3:20 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its epicenter was located about six miles south-southwest of Napa, California, and 51 miles west-southwest of the state capital, Sacramento. Officials have variously referred to the earthquake's magnitude as 6.0 and 6.1.
Dozens of aftershocks followed, with one reaching 3.6 magnitude, the USGS told ABC News. The earthquake was the largest one to shake the Bay Area since the 1989 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake.
John Callanan of the Napa Valley Fire Department told reporters that the department was responding to about six structure fires, including one involving a half-dozen mobile homes.
Eighty-seven people were being treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, Napa City Fire’s Darren Drake told ABC News. Three of those people were considered critical, including the child hurt by the fireplace, officials added.
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