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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Anthony in Kansas


Earthquake location 36.9735S, -97.9464WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:47:35 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.9464° West, 36.9735° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us100030x0. Unique identifier: us100030x0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 20:47:35 / August 10, 2015 @ 8:47 pm.

The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Blackwell, Wellington (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 21 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2015-08-10 20:47:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 21:01:16 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 148 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 0.14 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 86 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 us100030x0 Id of event.
Event Code 100030x0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030x0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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