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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 23 km NW of Grapevine, CA


Earthquake location 35.0853333S, -119.1113333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Grapevine in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.1113333 West, latitude 35.0853333 North, depth = 14.68 km. Id of earthquake: ci37679004. Event ids that are associated: ci37679004. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 19:08:23 / August 7, 2024 @ 7:08 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.68 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:08:23 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Delano, Mira Monte, Ojai. Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 23 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1113333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0853333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km NW 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 2024-08-07 19:08:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 23:40:21 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 reviewed 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 125 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 ci37679004 Id of event.
Event Code 37679004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37679004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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