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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 24 km S of Anthony, Kansas


Earthquake location 36.9311S, -98.0232WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Wednesday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:52:24 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.94 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003fwl. Unique identifier: us20003fwl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.0232 West, latitude 36.9311 North, depth = 9.94 km. Global time and date of event 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 23:52:24 / September 2, 2015 @ 11:52 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 24 km S of Anthony, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0232° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9311° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km S 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 2015-09-02 23:52:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-03 00:12:41 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 139 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 0.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us20003fwl Id of event.
Event Code 20003fwl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fwl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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