This is a situation room special report.

Wolflitzer is off.

I'm Brianna Keeler and we are following breaking news.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake, the biggest in decades has rocked southern California,

followed by dozens of aftershocks.

This was a quake that was felt in Los Angeles, where building swayed for several seconds,

but it was centered more than a hundred miles away near the desert town of Ridgecrest where damage includes broken water and

gas lines as well as fires. Scientists say there's a chance of another damaging

earthquake as soon as today. I'll be speaking with Congresswoman Nenette Barragan of California and

our correspondence and analysts have full coverage of the day's breaking news. I

want to begin in Southern California. We have CNN National Correspondent Sarah Sidner in our Los Angeles

Bureau. What are you hearing? What are you seeing? We have now heard that in

Ridgecrest where this epicenter 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit.

There are two house fires.

There are gas lines ruptured.

There are several vegetation fires that they're trying to deal with now.

The hospital has evacuated about 15 people there. The

regional hospital that serves the entire area, very important part of the

community. They're dealing with evacuations and that emergency crews are getting more calls than they can

handle.

They are though working on dealing with this issue now in Ridgecrest itself.

This earthquake was not just of course felt in Ridgecrest. It was felt as far

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