A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 10:49:49 / August 21, 2016 @ 10:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.31 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -97.8554° West, latitude 37.0396° North, depth = 4.31 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:49 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006fkc. Id of event: us10006fkc.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Derby, Haysville, Arkansas City. Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 20 km SE of Anthony, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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