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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Ellis in Kansas

Posted by admin on September 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.007S, -99.589WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ellis in Kansas. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/16 / 2016-09-19 03:24:40 / September 19, 2016 @ 3:24 am. Exact location of event, depth 3.08 km, -99.589° West, 39.007° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.08 km (2 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:24:40 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006qs0. Id of event: us10006qs0.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 NNW of Ellis, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.589° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km 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 2016-09-19 03:24:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-19 03:33:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 159 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 0.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us10006qs0 Id of event.
Event Code 10006qs0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006qs0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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