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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Anthony in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.0769S, -97.9749WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j4w7. Unique identifier: us2000j4w7. Exact location of earthquake, -97.9749° West, 37.0769° North, depth 9.13 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/19 / 2019-01-17 03:55:06 / January 17, 2019 @ 3:55 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:55:06 / 9:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.13 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Enid, Blackwell (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 9 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9749° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0769° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE 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 2019-01-17 03:55:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-17 04:03:09 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 129 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 0.087 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us2000j4w7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j4w7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j4w7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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