A number of families were displaced and hospital patients evacuated as a result of a swarm of hundreds of earthquakes.
No deaths or critical injuries were reported as a result of the quakes, the largest of which measured magnitudes 5.3 and 5.5. There appeared to be fewer quakes overnight Monday compared with Sunday.
Some buildings were damaged by the earlier quakes, including 20 mobile homes that shifted from their foundations, according to the Imperial County Office of Emergency Services. The office was working with the American Red Cross to set up a shelter for displaced families at the Imperial Valley College gymnasium.
The quakes cause scattered power outages, including at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, which lost power for about three hours. Assistant hospital administrator Art Mejia said generators immediately kicked in, but officials decided to evacuate patients as a precautionary measure in case the facility had suffered structural damage.
"We decided to err on the side of caution," he said.
