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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Harper in Kansas

Posted by admin on July 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2778333S, -97.9671667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Harper in Kansas. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/07/17 / 2017-07-25 00:43:13 / July 25, 2017 @ 12:43 am. Exact location of earthquake, -97.9671667° West, 37.2778333° North, depth 4.65 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.65 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:43:13 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ismpkansas70231363. Ids that are associated to the event: ismpkansas70231363.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mulvane (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wichita, Derby, Mulvane (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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 E of Harper, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9671667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2778333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E of Harper, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-25 00:43:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-25 15:44:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 ismpkansas The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ismpkansas, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03139 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ismpkansas70231363 Id of event.
Event Code 70231363 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ismpkansas70231363, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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