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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Anthony in Kansas

Posted by admin on June 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9567S, -97.9722WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Exact location of event, depth 3.784 km, -97.9722° West, 36.9567° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 21:25:28 / May 25, 2016 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20005xxn. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005xxn. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:25:28 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.784 km (2 miles).

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Wellington, Enid (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 22 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9722° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9567° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.784 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSE 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 2016-05-25 21:25:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-11 01:08:13 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 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005xxn Id of event.
Event Code 20005xxn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005xxn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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