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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 13 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas

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Earthquake location 36.9155S, -97.6475WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Thursday. Event id: us20007fki. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fki. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.93 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/16 / 2016-10-20 12:14:08 / October 20, 2016 @ 12:14 pm. The temblor was reported at 07:14:08 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.6475 West, latitude 36.9155 North, depth = 3.93 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Haysville, Perry.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9155° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW 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 2016-10-20 12:14:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-20 12:25:40 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 4.16 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 199 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 0.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us20007fki Id of event.
Event Code 20007fki An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fki, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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