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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Mankato in Kansas

Posted by admin on June 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.7663S, -98.1107WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Mankato in Kansas. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.1107° West, latitude 39.7663° North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us20009lxc. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009lxc. The temblor was reported at 05:18:34 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/06/17 / 2017-06-12 11:18:34 / June 12, 2017 @ 11:18 am UTC/GMT.

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 Concordia. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km ESE of Mankato, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1107° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE 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 2017-06-12 11:18:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-12 11:32:52 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 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.34 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 223 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 1.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us20009lxc Id of event.
Event Code 20009lxc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009lxc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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