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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 6 km E of Caldwell, Kansas

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Earthquake location 37.0376S, -97.5292WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/09/15 / 2015-09-01 11:41:00 / September 1, 2015 @ 11:41 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5292 West, latitude 37.0376 North, depth = 6.48 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:41:00 / 6:41 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003fca. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003fca. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.48 km (4 miles).

The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Wichita, Derby (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km E of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5292° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km E 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 2015-09-01 11:41:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-01 12:57:12 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 2.2 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 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 0.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us20003fca Id of event.
Event Code 20003fca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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