A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Id of earthquake: us10003mmr. Event ids that are associated: us10003mmr. The temblor was detected at 20:23:32 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/15 / 2015-10-10 01:23:32 / October 10, 2015 @ 1:23 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.64 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.9879 West, latitude 37.2205 North, depth = 6.64 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Wichita, Derby (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NNE of Anthony, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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