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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Anthony in Kansas

Posted by admin on October 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1243S, -97.8472WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Exact location of earthquake, -97.8472° West, 37.1243° North, depth 5 km. Id of earthquake: us20007gdm. Event ids that are associated: us20007gdm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/10/16 / 2016-10-24 13:50:13 / October 24, 2016 @ 1:50 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:50:13 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Arkansas City, Derby (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 16 km E of Anthony, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8472° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1243° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E 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 2016-10-24 13:50:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-24 14:11:40 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 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 0.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20007gdm Id of event.
Event Code 20007gdm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007gdm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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