Quake Kills 1 in South Oregon : Seismology: Damage from the 5.4 temblor is reported around Klamath Falls, where a building collapses. Effects are felt as far south as Redding.

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake killed at least one person Monday night as it shook southern Oregon and Northern California.

The quake buried a car in a rockslide, killing the driver, whose identity was not immediately known, an Oregon State Police dispatcher said. The rockslide about 20 miles north of Klamath Falls closed the highway.

The 8:29 p.m. quake was considered moderate, according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.

The quake was felt as far north as Eugene, Ore., and as far south as Redding, Calif. Its epicenter was 15 miles northwest of Klamath Falls.

“It rattled windows, there were swinging plants, chandeliers, things of that kind, but no injuries or damage,” said Penny Rodgers, a police dispatcher in Shasta County, Calif.

Several large storefront windows were broken in downtown Klamath Falls, said Tom Hottman, the city editor at the Herald and News.

Part of the former Stevens Hotel, currently occupied by a restaurant and bakery, collapsed, Hottman said. A second building downtown was declared unsafe, he said.

In Medford, patrons ran out of the Witham Truck Stop when the large glass windows began shaking, and there were reports of scattered power outages.

In Rogue River, lamps swayed and a child was tossed off the front porch of a house.

At the Southern Pacific rail yard in Roseburg, two southbound trains were kept overnight until crews could check the track for damage, train clerk Glenn Franklin said.

A bridge over the Klamath River on U.S. 97 about a mile south of Klamath Falls was closed because of a crack, officials said.

Rockslides were reported blocking sections of Oregon 140 and Oregon 66 between Ashland and Klamath Falls, the National Weather Service said.

Phone circuits in Klamath Falls and some in the Medford area were busy immediately after the quake, said Jim Haynes, spokesman for U.S. West.

“The best thing we can do is encourage people not to make calls to open things up for emergency crews,” Haynes said.

Scattered power outages were reported in Klamath Falls.