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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Caldwell in Kansas


Earthquake location 36.9211S, -97.6695WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Sunday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:31:17 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 15:31:17 / November 8, 2015 @ 3:31 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6695 West, latitude 36.9211 North, depth = 5.41 km. Event id: us10003vr6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vr6. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.41 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Mulvane, Winfield.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-08 15:31:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-08 16:25:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 129 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 0.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us10003vr6 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vr6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vr6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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