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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 4 km ESE of Salina, Kansas

Posted by admin on November 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8221S, -97.5671WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Salina in Kansas on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000htb6. Unique identifier: us1000htb6. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/11/18 / 2018-11-17 21:34:24 / November 17, 2018 @ 9:34 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.5671° West, latitude 38.8221° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:34:24 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Riley North, Junction City, McPherson. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 4 km (3 miles) from Salina (c. 47 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Junction City (c. 23 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fort Riley North (c. 7 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Abilene (c. 6 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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 ESE of Salina, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE 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 2018-11-17 21:34:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-18 02:06:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 123 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 0.796 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000htb6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000htb6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000htb6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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