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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Anthony in Kansas

Posted by admin on October 17, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0352S, -97.9292WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 07:12:50 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 12:12:50 / October 17, 2015 @ 12:12 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us10003pcg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003pcg. Exact location, longitude -97.9292° West, latitude 37.0352° North, depth = 5 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Derby, Arkansas City.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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 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: 15 km SE of Anthony, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9292° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0352° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE 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 2015-10-17 12:12:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-17 12:25:19 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 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 178 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 0.082 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us10003pcg Id of event.
Event Code 10003pcg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pcg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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