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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Mettler in California

Posted by admin on August 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.0557S, -119.0606WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Mettler in California. Id of earthquake: ew1723082960. Event ids that are associated: ew1723082960. The temblor was picked up at 02:09:15 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -119.0606° West, latitude 35.0557° North, depth = 9 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 02:09:15 / August 8, 2024 @ 2:09 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goleta, Chatsworth, California City. Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Oxnard (c. 197 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Oxnard Shores (c. 187 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Santa Clarita (c. 176 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lancaster (c. 156 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Valencia (c. 148 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Simi Valley (c. 124 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty-three 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. 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: 8 km W of Mettler, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0606° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km W of Mettler, California 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 02:09:31 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 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ew The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ew1723082960 Id of event.
Event Code 1723082960 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1723082960, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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