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Light earthquake 4.39 mag, 22 km NW of Grapevine, CA


Earthquake location 35.1016655S, -119.0708313WA light earthquake magnitude 4.39 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Grapevine in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 02:09:15 / August 8, 2024 @ 2:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -119.0708313° West, 35.1016655° North, depth 11.28 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:09:15 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci40869232. Event ids that are associated: ew1723082960, ci40869232. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.28 km (7 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ventura, Quartz Hill, Santa Clarita. Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ventura (c. 96 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Moorpark (c. 34 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km NW of Grapevine, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0708313° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1016655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.28 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 2024-08-08 02:09:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-08 02:17:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 33 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.685 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 310 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 ,ew,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 125 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04426 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 mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci40869232 Id of event.
Event Code 40869232 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1723082960,ci40869232, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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