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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Anthony in Kansas

Posted by admin on August 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0504S, -97.9096WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/08/15 / 2015-08-20 13:17:55 / August 20, 2015 @ 1:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.94 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9096 West, latitude 37.0504 North, depth = 7.94 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100033nu. Id of event: us100033nu. The temblor was detected at 08:17:55 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Derby, Arkansas City, Haysville (min 5000 pop).

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 five, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SE of Anthony, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0504° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE of Anthony, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-20 13:17:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 13:27:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.116 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100033nu Id of event.
Event Code 100033nu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033nu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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