July 8, 2021 M 6.0 Antelope Valley, CA Earthquake
Event response pages are a service to help coordinate community science after an earthquake or other notable geophysical event by collecting relevant data. Findings and figures are preliminary and subject to revision.
At 22:49:48 (UTC) on July 8, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in Antelope Valley, CA along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, generating felt shaking across a wide area. A complex zone of shear called the Walker Lane runs along the Sierra Nevada here but this earthquake represented east-west extension, which is also common in the area. For more information, see the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Event page.
The event occurred within the footprint of the Network of the Americas (NOTA), a network of continuous GPS/GNSS stations and borehole instruments operated by UNAVCO that monitors plate motion and transient deformation, in addition to other applications.
These data are provided by the Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE) Facility, operated by UNAVCO, Inc. with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-1724794. NOTA is a core component of the NSF GAGE Facility. To acknowledge use of these data please follow the acknowledgment guidelines.
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Written by:
- Scott K. Johnson
- Posted: 20 July 2021
- Last updated: 7 November 2022
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Did you feel it?
The USGS collects information from people who felt an earthquake and creates maps that show what people experienced and the extent of the damage
Submit a responseOn this page:
Response Data
Please contact archive-gps@unavco.org for information on data availability. To request access to these and other RT-GPS stations operated by UNAVCO please send an email request to rtgps@unavco.org.
NOTA GPS/GNSS Data
GNSS data access tools can be found here. The Event Data Access notebook can be used to locate stations nearest this event.
Offsets
Coseismic offsets calculated from daily GNSS positions and final orbits can be found here. (Credit: Tom Herring/MIT)
Borehole Strainmeter Data
Strainmeter data can be accessed here.
