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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Anthony in Kansas

Posted by admin on September 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2041S, -97.773WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Anthony in Kansas on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 00:23:24 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us2000haw4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000haw4. Exact location of event, longitude -97.773 West, latitude 37.2041 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/18 / 2018-09-08 06:23:24 / September 8, 2018 @ 6:23 am.

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 Ponca City, Andover, Valley Center. Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ENE of Anthony, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2041° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Anthony, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-08 06:23:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-08 06:41:50 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 178 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 0.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us2000haw4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000haw4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000haw4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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