A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002z4p. Unique identifier: us20002z4p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9354 West, latitude 37.026 North, depth = 5.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.95 km (4 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:17:41 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/15 / 2015-07-22 03:17:41 / July 22, 2015 @ 3:17 am.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Blackwell, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 16 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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