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Light earthquake 4 mag, 12 km ESE of Dustin Acres, California

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Dustin Acres in California. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 07:11:21 / August 7, 2024 @ 7:11 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: ew1723014690. Ids that are associated to the event: ew1723014690. The temblor was reported at 07:11:21 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -119.2655 West, latitude 35.1815 North, depth = 8 km.

Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Shafter (c. 17 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carpinteria, Montecito, Alta Sierra.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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 ESE of Dustin Acres, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.2655° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1815° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ESE of Dustin Acres, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-07 07:11:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 07:15:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	246	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ew	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ew,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ew1723014690	Id of event.
Event Code	1723014690	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1723014690,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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