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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Grapevine in CA


Earthquake location 35.0553322S, -118.9311676WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Grapevine in CA on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: ci38441215. Event ids that are associated: ci38441215. Exact location, longitude -118.9311676° West, latitude 35.0553322° North, depth = 7.29 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/19 / 2019-07-02 22:40:56 / July 2, 2019 @ 10:40 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:40:56 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.29 km (5 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Paula (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quartz Hill, Santa Paula, Mira Monte (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km N of Grapevine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9311676° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0553322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of Grapevine, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-02 22:40:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 22:43:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 156 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38441215 Id of event.
Event Code 38441215 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38441215, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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