Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Kansas kilometers (0 miles) from Kansas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 00:55:33 / September 12, 2015 @ 12:55 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003iwg. Id of event: us20003iwg. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:55:33 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.9189 West, latitude 37.0438 North, depth = 6.24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.24 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Arkansas City, Haysville (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 one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.9189° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0438° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-12 00:55:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-12 01:13:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	149	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	0.074	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	us20003iwg	Id of event.
Event Code	20003iwg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003iwg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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