Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Caldwell in Kansas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Caldwell in Kansas on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 02:31:34 / 2:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.5913 West, latitude 37.0983 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 08:31:34 / September 21, 2019 @ 8:31 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60005lq5. Unique identifier: us60005lq5.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wichita, Ponca City, Derby.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km N of Caldwell, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5913° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0983° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km N 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	2019-09-21 08:31:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-21 08:40:41	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	0.144	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us60005lq5	Id of event.
Event Code	60005lq5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60005lq5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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