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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on October 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9642S, -97.707WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.707 West, latitude 36.9642 North, depth = 3.13 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:03:48 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/10/17 / 2017-10-21 16:03:48 / October 21, 2017 @ 4:03 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000av8b. Unique identifier: us1000av8b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.13 km (2 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Derby, Haysville, Winfield (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SW of Caldwell, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.707° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW 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 2017-10-21 16:03:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-21 16:21:02 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 158 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 0.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us1000av8b Id of event.
Event Code 1000av8b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000av8b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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