6.4 earthquake shakes parts of Northern California

A strong earthquake shook a rural stretch of Northern California early Tuesday, jolting residents awake, cutting off power to 70,000 people, and damaging some buildings and a roadway, officials said.

Two injuries were reported. Mark Ghilarducci, Director of Cal OES  said "The impacts from the quake really centered in Humboldt County and predominantly around the towns of Ferndale and Fortuna and Rio Dell. And it's not an area where they're strangers to earthquakes.

They've had pretty good sizable earthquakes up in this area in the past.  "At this point, there is some 71,000 people that still are without power. And PGE, we're working closely with PGE to get that power restored up into the area and making sure they've got all the resources to be able to do that."

 The magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 2:34 a.m. near Ferndale, a small community about 210 miles northwest of San Francisco and close to the Pacific coast. The epicenter was just offshore at a depth of about 10 miles. Numerous aftershocks followed.