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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 7 km NNW of Ellis, Kansas


Earthquake location 39.0058S, -99.583WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ellis in Kansas. Event id: us10006j1s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006j1s. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/16 / 2016-08-31 15:27:05 / August 31, 2016 @ 3:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:27:05 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -99.583° West, latitude 39.0058° North, depth = 5 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 7 km NNW of Ellis, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.583° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of Ellis, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-31 15:27:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-31 15:40:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 158 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 0.226 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us10006j1s Id of event.
Event Code 10006j1s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006j1s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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