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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Anthony in Kansas

Posted by admin on August 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0838S, -98.0433WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Global time and date of event 22/08/16 / 2016-08-22 08:22:00 / August 22, 2016 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:22:00 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.85 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.0433° West, latitude 37.0838° North, depth = 7.85 km. Unique identifier: us10006fq3. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006fq3.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Wellington (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 7 km S of Anthony, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0433° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km 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 2016-08-22 08:22:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-22 08:40:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 129 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 0.057 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10006fq3 Id of event.
Event Code 10006fq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006fq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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