MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - At least 120 people have been hospitalized in northern California as a result of the strongest earthquake to hit the region in nearly 25, CNN reported quoting the head of the hospital receiving the victims.
Six patients, including a child, are in critical condition, Walt Mickens, head of Queen of the Valley Hospital, was quoted as saying.
The 6.1-magnitude quake hit the Napa Valley about 10 miles northwest of American Canyon Sunday morning and was felt as far south as Santa Cruz and into Sonoma County. Its aftershocks destroyed some of the state infrastructure, caused fires, led to roads and railway closure, and left nearly 70,000 people without power. Californian Governor Edmund Brown declared a state of emergency.
Chief of the Napa Fire Department, John Callanan, said earlier the city had exhausted its own resources extinguishing fires, transporting the wounded, and combing debris for trapped residents.
The tremor, centered about 6 miles southwest of Napa at a depth of about 7 miles, according to USGS, was the strongest to hit the Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, which destroyed a section of the Bay Bridge, according to The New York Times.
