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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Grapevine in CA


Earthquake location 35.0834999S, -119.0823364WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Grapevine in CA. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:27:19 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ci40867344. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40867344. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.0823364 West, latitude 35.0834999 North, depth = 9.95 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 12:27:19 / August 7, 2024 @ 12:27 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.95 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mira Monte, Ojai, McFarland. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Shafter (c. 17 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km NW of Grapevine, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0823364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0834999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 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 12:27:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 12:29:28 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 129 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 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 ci40867344 Id of event.
Event Code 40867344 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40867344, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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