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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Mankato in Kansas

Posted by admin on May 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.735S, -98.157WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mankato in Kansas on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us10008uf1. Event ids that are associated: us10008uf1. The temblor was detected at 10:16:56 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 16:16:56 / May 23, 2017 @ 4:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.157 West, latitude 39.735 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concordia.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 7 km SE of Mankato, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.157° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SE of Mankato, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-23 16:16:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-23 16:35:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 1.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us10008uf1 Id of event.
Event Code 10008uf1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008uf1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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