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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Anthony in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.072S, -97.9973WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 03:43:43 / July 27, 2015 @ 3:43 am. Event id: us200030ah. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200030ah. Exact location, longitude -97.9973° West, latitude 37.072° North, depth = 6.69 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:43:43 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.69 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Blackwell, Wellington (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 9 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2015-07-27 03:43:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 03:54:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 121 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 0.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us200030ah Id of event.
Event Code 200030ah An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200030ah, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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