A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.16 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000881b. Id of event: us1000881b. The temblor was detected at 17:49:28 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.9817° West, 37.0699° North, depth 7.16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/03/17 / 2017-03-09 23:49:28 / March 9, 2017 @ 11:49 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mulvane, Haysville, Enid. Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mulvane (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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