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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Wellington in Kansas

Posted by admin on October 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1861S, -97.4422WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Wellington in Kansas on Sunday. Unique identifier: us1000h4tp. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h4tp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/18 / 2018-10-01 00:33:23 / October 1, 2018 @ 12:33 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.79 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -97.4422° West, 37.1861° North, depth 5.79 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:33:23 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Valley Center, Park City, Augusta (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SW of Wellington, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4422° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Wellington, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-01 00:33:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-01 00:44:59 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 138 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 0.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us1000h4tp Id of event.
Event Code 1000h4tp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h4tp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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