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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Mankato in Kansas

Posted by admin on December 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.6471S, -98.3829WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mankato in Kansas on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -98.3829° West, 39.6471° North, depth 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/18 / 2018-12-07 19:51:26 / December 7, 2018 @ 7:51 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000iskc. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000iskc. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:51:26 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concordia (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SW of Mankato, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3829° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SW of Mankato, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-07 19:51:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-11 20:19:46 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 129 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 1.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us2000iskc Id of event.
Event Code 2000iskc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iskc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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