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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Harper in Kansas

Posted by admin on October 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3373S, -98.1268WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Harper in Kansas. Exact location, longitude -98.1268° West, latitude 37.3373° North, depth = 8.43 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.43 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/17 / 2017-10-11 23:29:06 / October 11, 2017 @ 11:29 pm. Unique identifier: us1000aqj1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000aqj1. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:29:06 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wichita, Mulvane, Derby. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pratt (c. 6 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km WNW of Harper, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1268° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW 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 2017-10-11 23:29:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-12 00:12:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 148 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 0.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us1000aqj1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000aqj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000aqj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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