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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Harper in Kansas

Posted by admin on December 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2312S, -97.8678WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Harper in Kansas on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -97.8678° West, latitude 37.2312° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 08:46:57 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/16 / 2016-12-22 14:46:57 / December 22, 2016 @ 2:46 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007lzy. Unique identifier: us10007lzy.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Arkansas City, Blackwell.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km ESE of Harper, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ESE 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 2016-12-22 14:46:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-22 17:11:01 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 0.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us10007lzy Id of event.
Event Code 10007lzy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007lzy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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