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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Harper in Kansas

Posted by admin on July 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3358S, -98.18WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Harper in Kansas. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002yhm. Unique identifier: us20002yhm. Global time and date of event 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 08:53:18 / July 19, 2015 @ 8:53 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.18° West, 37.3358° North. The temblor was reported at 03:53:18 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Pratt (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Pratt (c. 6 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km WNW of Harper, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.18° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW 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 2015-07-19 08:53:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 09:04:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 0.15 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us20002yhm Id of event.
Event Code 20002yhm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yhm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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