Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Anthony in Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Exact location of event, longitude -98.0076 West, latitude 37.1818 North, depth = 5.53 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:08:18 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000627j. Event ids that are associated: us2000627j. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.53 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/16 / 2016-06-05 17:08:18 / June 5, 2016 @ 5:08 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Derby, Mulvane (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mulvane (c. 6 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 3 km NNE of Anthony, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.0076° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1818° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km 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	2016-06-05 17:08:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-05 17:31:27	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	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	158	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	0.053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us2000627j	Id of event.
Event Code	2000627j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000627j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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