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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Caldwell in Kansas


Earthquake location 36.942S, -97.6308WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. Exact location, longitude -97.6308° West, latitude 36.942° North, depth = 4.31 km. Unique identifier: us1000ds1l. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ds1l. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.31 km (3 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:52:58 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/04/18 / 2018-04-25 14:52:58 / April 25, 2018 @ 2:52 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Haysville, Mulvane (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2018-04-25 14:52:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 15:02:12 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 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 0.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us1000ds1l Id of event.
Event Code 1000ds1l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ds1l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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