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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Caldwell in Kansas

Posted by admin on May 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.945S, -97.6324WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas. Event id: us1000dsx3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dsx3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 19:23:18 / April 26, 2018 @ 7:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.767 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -97.6324° West, 36.945° North, depth 6.767 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:23:18 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Derby, Haysville, Mulvane (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6324° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.945° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.767 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW 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 2018-04-26 19:23:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-08 22:09:09 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 138 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us1000dsx3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dsx3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dsx3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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