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Minor earthquake 3.75 mag, 24 km NW of Grapevine, CA


Earthquake location 35.0970001S, -119.1159973WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Grapevine in CA. The temblor was reported at 04:17:46 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:17:46 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:17 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.47 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.1159973 West, latitude 35.0970001 North, depth = 6.47 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci40865232. Unique identifier: ci40865232.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valencia, Carpinteria, Santa Paula. Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Santa Paula (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km NW of Grapevine, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.75 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1159973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0970001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.47 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 04:17:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 04:19:56 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 216 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mlr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci40865232 Id of event.
Event Code 40865232 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40865232, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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