Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Anthony in Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 21:34:39 / March 19, 2016 @ 9:34 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:34:39 / 4:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -98.025° West, 37.0969° North, depth 4.63 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.63 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us20005b3w. Event ids that are associated: us20005b3w.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km S of Anthony, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.025° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0969° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km 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	2016-03-19 21:34:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-19 21:54:14	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	2.5	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	130	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	0.062	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us20005b3w	Id of event.
Event Code	20005b3w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005b3w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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