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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 16 km S of Conway Springs, Kansas


Earthquake location 37.2433S, -97.6271WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Conway Springs in Kansas. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/16 / 2016-11-26 02:57:15 / November 26, 2016 @ 2:57 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007cfz. Id of event: us10007cfz. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.6271° West, 37.2433° North. The temblor was picked up at 20:57:15 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Augusta, Valley Center (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 16 km S of Conway Springs, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6271° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km S of Conway Springs, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-26 02:57:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-26 03:04:33 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 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 0.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10007cfz Id of event.
Event Code 10007cfz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007cfz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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