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

Posted by admin on September 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3526S, -97.9791WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Harper in Kansas. The temblor was detected at 01:43:31 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.9791° West, 37.3526° North. Global time and date of event 13/09/18 / 2018-09-13 07:43:31 / September 13, 2018 @ 7:43 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hdv1. Unique identifier: us2000hdv1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hutchinson (c. 42 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hutchinson, Park City, Valley Center (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-five 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: 8 km NNE 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 -97.9791° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE 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 2018-09-13 07:43:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-13 07:58:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 0.057 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000hdv1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hdv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hdv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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