Two injured, thousands without power after strong quake rattles northern California

A view of the damage inside a house, after an earthquake struck off the coast of northern California, in Ferndale, California, U.S. December 20, 2022, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Caroline Titus via Twitter/@caroline95536/via REUTERS.

(Reuters) - A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of northern California on Tuesday injured two people, damaged a bridge and several roads and left thousands of homes and businesses without power.

The earthquake struck at 2:34 a.m. local time (1034 GMT) and was about 10 miles (16.1 km) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. It struck about 7.4 miles (12 km) west-southwest of Ferndale, California, a Humboldt County town home to about 1,400 people and located 261 miles (420 km) north of San Francisco and just south of Eureka.