Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Grapevine in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:17:03 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:17 am. The temblor was reported at 04:17:03 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci40865216. Event ids that are associated: ci40865216. Exact location of event, longitude -119.0801667 West, latitude 35.0681667 North, depth = 12.13 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castaic, Fillmore, Mira Monte. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Castaic (c. 19 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km NW of Grapevine, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0801667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0681667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 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 04:17:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 18:43:02	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	142	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.009999	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	ci40865216	Id of event.
Event Code	40865216	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40865216,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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