Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Grapevine in CA on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/24 / 2024-07-04 08:51:42 / July 4, 2024 @ 8:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.940834 West, latitude 35.0511665 North, depth = 6.39 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.39 km (4 miles). Event id: ci40648447. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40648447. The temblor was detected at 08:51:42 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mira Monte, McFarland, Valencia (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km N of Grapevine, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Arvin Bakersfield CA Grapevine McFarland Mira Monte Oildale United States Valencia Wasco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.940834° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0511665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km 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	2024-07-04 08:51:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-04 08:53:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	128	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	102	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	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	ci40648447	Id of event.
Event Code	40648447	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40648447,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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