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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Caldwell in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.071S, -97.8187WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Wednesday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:47:13 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hd9u. Unique identifier: us1000hd9u. Exact location of earthquake, -97.8187° West, 37.071° North, depth 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 09:47:13 / October 17, 2018 @ 9:47 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Enid, Winfield (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 19 km WNW of Caldwell, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WNW 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 2018-10-17 09:47:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-17 10:05:17 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 0.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us1000hd9u Id of event.
Event Code 1000hd9u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hd9u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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