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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Plainville in Kansas

Posted by admin on August 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.2805S, -99.0204WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Plainville in Kansas on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -99.0204° West, 39.2805° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was detected at 09:02:30 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 15:02:30 / August 22, 2018 @ 3:02 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gfe0. Id of event: us1000gfe0. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km ENE of Plainville, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.0204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ENE of Plainville, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-22 15:02:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-22 15:34:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.46 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 237 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 0.727 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us1000gfe0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gfe0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gfe0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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