A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/10/15 / 2015-10-03 17:33:06 / October 3, 2015 @ 5:33 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:33:06 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.0328° West, latitude 37.0613° North, depth = 7.69 km. Unique identifier: us10003k1m. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003k1m. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.69 km (5 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Blackwell, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km S of Anthony, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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