A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mankato in Kansas. The temblor was reported at 18:13:17 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.2028° West, latitude 39.7463° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/17 / 2017-04-07 00:13:17 / April 7, 2017 @ 12:13 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008fbg. Unique identifier: us10008fbg.
Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concordia (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. 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: 4 km S of Mankato, Kansas.
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