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Minor earthquake 2.94 mag, 24 km NW of Grapevine, CA


Earthquake location 35.0996667S, -119.1123333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Grapevine in CA on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.13 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: ci40869472. Ids that are associated to the event: ci40869472. Exact location of earthquake, -119.1123333° West, 35.0996667° North, depth 1.13 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:30:28 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 04:30:28 / August 8, 2024 @ 4:30 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bakersfield (c. 347 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Oildale (c. 32 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Arvin (c. 19 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mira Monte, Delano, Ojai.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 24 km NW of Grapevine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1123333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0996667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 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 04:30:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-08 04:37:39 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 133 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04718 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 30 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 ci40869472 Id of event.
Event Code 40869472 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci40869472, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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