A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. The temblor was picked up at 08:25:54 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.8279° West, latitude 37.1368° North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 24/10/16 / 2016-10-24 13:25:54 / October 24, 2016 @ 1:25 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20007gdi. Event ids that are associated: us20007gdi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Ponca City, Wichita (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km E of Anthony, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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