Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Grapevine in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 7.05 km, -119.1011658° West, 35.098835° North. The temblor was picked up at 04:29:35 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:29:35 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:29 am. Id of earthquake: ci40865360. Event ids that are associated: ci40865360. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.05 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 31 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Castaic, Fillmore, Mira Monte.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 23 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1011658° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.098835° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 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 04:29:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 04:31:46	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	168	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	91	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04259	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	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	ci40865360	Id of event.
Event Code	40865360	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40865360,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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