Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Caldwell in Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5001667 West, latitude 36.9775 North, depth = 5.39 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/18 / 2018-03-24 13:30:56 / March 24, 2018 @ 1:30 pm. Unique identifier: ismpkansas70243763. Ids that are associated to the event: ismpkansas70243763. The temblor was reported at 07:30:56 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.39 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Perry, Enid, Haysville.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km ESE of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5001667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9775° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km ESE 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	2018-03-24 13:30:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-26 19:36:13	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	140	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ismpkansas	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ismpkansas,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03959	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ismpkansas70243763	Id of event.
Event Code	70243763	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ismpkansas70243763,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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