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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on January 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8966S, -97.5791WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 20:02:37 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007ry0. Event ids that are associated: us10007ry0. Global time and date of event 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 02:02:37 / January 8, 2017 @ 2:02 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.01 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 3.01 km, -97.5791° West, 36.8966° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Derby, Haysville, Perry. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km S of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5791° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km S 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 2017-01-08 02:02:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-08 02:13:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 0.141 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 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 us10007ry0 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ry0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ry0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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