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Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Caldwell in Kansas


Earthquake location 36.9775S, -97.5001667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5001667 West, latitude 36.9775 North, depth = 5.39 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/18 / 2018-03-24 13:30:56 / March 24, 2018 @ 1:30 pm. Unique identifier: ismpkansas70243763. Ids that are associated to the event: ismpkansas70243763. The temblor was reported at 07:30:56 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.39 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Perry, Enid, Haysville.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 ESE of Caldwell, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5001667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ESE 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 2018-03-24 13:30:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-26 19:36:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 140 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ismpkansas The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ismpkansas, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03959 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 ismpkansas70243763 Id of event.
Event Code 70243763 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ismpkansas70243763, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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