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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 10 km N of Caldwell, Kansas

Posted by admin on October 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1256S, -97.5983WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. The temblor was picked up at 19:08:50 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10003pk9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003pk9. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.78 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.5983° West, latitude 37.1256° North, depth = 8.78 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/15 / 2015-10-19 00:08:50 / October 19, 2015 @ 12:08 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Andover, Wichita, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 10 km N of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N 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 2015-10-19 00:08:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-19 00:25:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 138 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 0.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 us10003pk9 Id of event.
Event Code 10003pk9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pk9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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