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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on August 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9299S, -97.6754WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 00:39:28 / August 26, 2015 @ 12:39 am. Exact location of event, depth 1.108 km, -97.6754° West, 36.9299° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:39:28 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000351w. Event ids that are associated: us1000351w. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.108 km (1 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Haysville, Mulvane, Winfield (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.108 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2015-08-26 00:39:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-26 21:24:15 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000351w Id of event.
Event Code 1000351w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000351w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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