Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag strikes near Grapevine in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Grapevine in CA on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -119.1073333° West, latitude 35.0813333° North, depth = 13.7 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:12:12 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.7 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 04:12:12 / August 7, 2024 @ 4:12 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nii6, ci37679332. Unique identifier: ci37679332.

Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Castaic, Fillmore, Delano. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

Arvin Bakersfield CA Castaic Delano Fillmore Grapevine Oildale United States Wasco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1073333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0813333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.7 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 04:12:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-09 22:11:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.578	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	reviewed	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	160	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	,us,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02978	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	ci37679332	Id of event.
Event Code	37679332	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nii6,ci37679332,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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