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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Caldwell in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.135S, -97.6137WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/17 / 2017-08-05 03:14:10 / August 5, 2017 @ 3:14 am. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:14:10 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6137 West, latitude 37.135 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000a50d. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a50d.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Park City, Andover, Ponca City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 11 km N of Caldwell, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6137° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km N 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 2017-08-05 03:14:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-05 03:39:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 140 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 0.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000a50d Id of event.
Event Code 2000a50d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a50d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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