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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Salina in Kansas

Posted by admin on June 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8476S, -97.5575WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Salina in Kansas on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.5575° West, 38.8476° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:54:53 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/06/18 / 2018-06-04 10:54:53 / June 4, 2018 @ 10:54 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000eiez. Id of event: us1000eiez.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Riley North, Junction City, McPherson. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 5 km (3 miles) from Salina (c. 47 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Junction City (c. 23 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Fort Riley North (c. 7 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Abilene (c. 6 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km E of Salina, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Salina, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-04 10:54:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-04 11:27:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 134 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 0.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us1000eiez Id of event.
Event Code 1000eiez An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eiez, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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