A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 02:13:54 / August 9, 2019 @ 2:13 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:13:54 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us600052lp. Ids that are associated to the event: us600052lp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9698 West, latitude 37.0703 North, depth = 5 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Blackwell, Wellington. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SSE of Anthony, Kansas.
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