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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Anthony in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.062S, -97.976WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007lsc. Unique identifier: us70007lsc. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.976° West, 37.062° North. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:19:15 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 23:19:15 / February 8, 2020 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Derby, Mulvane (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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.062° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2020-02-08 23:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 23:32:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.526 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 191 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 0.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us70007lsc Id of event.
Event Code 70007lsc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lsc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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