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Minor earthquake 3.13 mag, 24 km NW of Grapevine, CA


Earthquake location 35.0936661S, -119.1139984WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Grapevine in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 18:05:48 / August 7, 2024 @ 6:05 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ci40868176. Unique identifier: ci40868176. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.21 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -119.1139984 West, latitude 35.0936661 North, depth = 12.21 km. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:05:48 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter).

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 Fillmore, Delano, Mira Monte. Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1139984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0936661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 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 18:05:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 18:08:00 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 151 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 ci40868176 Id of event.
Event Code 40868176 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40868176, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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