Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Grapevine in CA. The temblor was detected at 05:48:05 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -119.1146698° West, 35.1069984° North, depth 11.22 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 05:48:05 / August 7, 2024 @ 5:48 am. Id of earthquake: ci40865904. Event ids that are associated: ci40865904. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.22 km (7 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mira Monte, Delano, Ojai (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 25 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1146698° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1069984° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 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 05:48:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 05:50:35	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05452	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	ci40865904	Id of event.
Event Code	40865904	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40865904,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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