The Latest: Expert: California quake strongest in 20 years

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a quake felt in Southern California and Nevada (all times local):
12:05 p.m.
Veteran seismologist Lucy Jones says the earthquake Thursday was the strongest to hit Southern California in 20 years.
She says the previous large quake was a 7.1 on that struck in the area on October 16, 1999.
Jones told reporters at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, that the 6.4 quake centered in the Mojave Desert near the town of Ridgecrest was prec