Minor earthquake: M3.27 quake has struck near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Grapevine in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:21:50 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:21 am. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:21:50 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci40865280. Id of event: ci40865280. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.68 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -119.0963364 West, latitude 35.0893326 North, depth = 3.68 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Paula (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Paula, Castaic, Fillmore (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

Bakersfield CA Castaic Delano Fillmore Grapevine Oildale Santa Paula United States Wasco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.27 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0963364° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0893326° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 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 04:24:03	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	165	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03234	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	ci40865280	Id of event.
Event Code	40865280	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci40865280,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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