A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.36 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 15/10/15 / 2015-10-15 05:10:19 / October 15, 2015 @ 5:10 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:10:19 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10003nsw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003nsw. Exact location, longitude -97.939° West, latitude 37.0515° North, depth = 7.36 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mulvane, Haysville, Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mulvane (c. 6 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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