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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on June 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9404S, -97.6642WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.85 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: us10002m9i. Event ids that are associated: us10002m9i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6642 West, latitude 36.9404 North, depth = 1.85 km. The temblor was reported at 21:46:08 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 02:46:08 / June 29, 2015 @ 2:46 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Haysville, Mulvane (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6642° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9404° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2015-06-29 02:46:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 03:17:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 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 0.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us10002m9i Id of event.
Event Code 10002m9i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002m9i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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