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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Harper in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.2322S, -97.9591WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Harper in Kansas. Unique identifier: us10002nbe. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002nbe. Exact location, longitude -97.9591° West, latitude 37.2322° North, depth = 3.09 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.09 km (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 19:59:19 / July 3, 2015 @ 7:59 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:59:19 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Wichita, Derby.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km SE of Harper, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SE of Harper, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-03 19:59:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-04 22:43:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 130 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 0.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us10002nbe Id of event.
Event Code 10002nbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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