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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Anthony in Kansas


Earthquake location 36.92477417S, -98.0218811WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Anthony in Kansas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.585624218 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/19 / 2019-10-22 21:03:58 / October 22, 2019 @ 9:03 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.0218811 West, latitude 36.92477417 North, depth = 5.585624218 km. Unique identifier: ok2019ustp. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2019ustp. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:03:58 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 25 km S of Anthony, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0218811° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.92477417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.585624218 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km S 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 2019-10-22 21:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-22 21:04:59 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 automatic 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 176 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ok The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ok, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05698334426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2983904758 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119.027657 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ok2019ustp Id of event.
Event Code 2019ustp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019ustp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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