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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on August 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0543S, -97.5119WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:23:34 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006u4c. Unique identifier: us20006u4c. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.5119° West, 37.0543° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/16 / 2016-08-26 04:23:34 / August 26, 2016 @ 4:23 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wichita, Derby, Haysville (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 8 km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of Caldwell, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-26 04:23:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 04:33:44 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 121 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 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us20006u4c Id of event.
Event Code 20006u4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006u4c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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