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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Kansas


Earthquake location 37.0353S, -97.3799WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes Kansas kilometers (0 miles) from Kansas on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 7.5 km, -97.3799° West, 37.0353° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008jkp. Unique identifier: us20008jkp. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:39:59 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/02/17 / 2017-02-13 21:39:59 / February 13, 2017 @ 9:39 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.5 km (5 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Augusta, Andover, Wichita. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.3799° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-13 21:39:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-13 21:53:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 168 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 0.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us20008jkp Id of event.
Event Code 20008jkp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008jkp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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