Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag strikes near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Grapevine in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.0923333 West, latitude 35.0608333 North, depth = 15.41 km. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:21:50 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci40865272. Event ids that are associated: ci40865272. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:21:50 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:21 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.41 km (10 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Delano, Santa Paula, Castaic. The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Paula (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 20 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

Bakersfield CA Castaic Delano Grapevine Oildale Santa Paula United States Wasco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0923333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0608333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.41 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 04:21:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 04:48:13	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.007346	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	107	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	ci40865272	Id of event.
Event Code	40865272	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40865272,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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