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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Anthony in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.1917S, -98.016WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zpn. Unique identifier: us20005zpn. The temblor was detected at 13:13:18 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.016 West, latitude 37.1917 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 18:13:18 / June 1, 2016 @ 6:13 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Derby, Mulvane (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mulvane (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NNE of Anthony, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNE 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 2016-06-01 18:13:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 18:26:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 148 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 0.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us20005zpn Id of event.
Event Code 20005zpn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zpn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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