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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Grapevine in CA


Earthquake location 35.0756683S, -119.0920029WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Grapevine in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: ci40869248. Unique identifier: ci40869248. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:22:56 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.0920029 West, latitude 35.0756683 North, depth = 11.3 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 02:22:56 / August 8, 2024 @ 2:22 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.3 km (7 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Delano, Castaic, Fillmore (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km NW of Grapevine, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0920029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0756683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 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 02:22:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-08 02:25:04 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 138 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01831 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 24 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 ci40869248 Id of event.
Event Code 40869248 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40869248, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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