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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on May 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0547S, -97.7311WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Saturday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:04:36 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7311 West, latitude 37.0547 North, depth = 4.77 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.77 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005hfa. Id of event: us10005hfa. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 19:04:36 / May 14, 2016 @ 7:04 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Ponca City, Winfield (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 11 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7311° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0547° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW 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 2016-05-14 19:04:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-14 19:30:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 0.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us10005hfa Id of event.
Event Code 10005hfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005hfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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