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California towns survey quake damage amid more aftershocks

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Com- areas, although the quake
munities in the Mojave was felt widely, including in
Desert tallied damage and the Los Angeles region 150
made emergency repairs miles (240 kilometers) away.
to cracked roads and bro- The largest aftershock thus
ken pipes Friday as after- far — magnitude 5.4 — was
shocks from Southern Cali- also felt in LA before dawn
fornia's largest earthquake Friday. Ridgecrest Re-
in 20 years kept rumbling. gional Hospital remained
The small town of closed as state inspectors
Ridgecrest, close to the assessed it, spokeswoman
epicenter, assessed dam- Jayde Glenn said. The hos-
age after several fires and pital's own review found
multiple injuries that were no structural damage, but
blamed on the magnitude there were cracks in walls,
6.4 quake. A shelter drew broken water pipes and
28 people overnight, but water damage.
not all of them slept inside The hospital was prepared
amid the shaking. to help women in labor
"Some people slept outside and to give triage care to
in tents because they were emergency patients, Fif-
so nervous," said Marium teen patients were evacu- Pipes are damaged from an earthquake, Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Trona, Calif. A strong earth-
Mohiuddin of the Ameri- ated to other hospitals af- quake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling
can Red Cross. Damage ter the quake, Glenn said. nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing some damage in a town near the epicenter, followed
appeared limited to desert Continued on Page 3 by a swarm of aftershocks. Associated Press