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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Mankato in Kansas


Earthquake location 39.7435S, -98.1805WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mankato in Kansas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009m3y. Id of event: us20009m3y. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/06/17 / 2017-06-13 09:40:37 / June 13, 2017 @ 9:40 am. Exact location of event, longitude -98.1805 West, latitude 39.7435 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:40:37 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby 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.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSE of Mankato, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7435° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2017-06-13 09:40:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-13 10:09:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.44 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 242 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 1.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us20009m3y Id of event.
Event Code 20009m3y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009m3y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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