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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Mankato in Kansas

Posted by admin on June 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.7586S, -98.1903WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Mankato in Kansas. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:29:20 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/06/17 / 2017-06-03 20:29:20 / June 3, 2017 @ 8:29 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.1903 West, latitude 39.7586 North, depth = 16.17 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009kj0. Id of event: us20009kj0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.17 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concordia (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 3 km SSE of Mankato, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE 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 2017-06-03 20:29:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-03 20:58:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 139 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 1.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us20009kj0 Id of event.
Event Code 20009kj0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009kj0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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