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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Plainville in Kansas


Earthquake location 39.213S, -99.3725WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Plainville in Kansas on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 02:50:25 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us600044l0. Event ids that are associated: us600044l0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/06/19 / 2019-06-22 08:50:25 / June 22, 2019 @ 8:50 am. Exact location of event, longitude -99.3725 West, latitude 39.213 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WSW of Plainville, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.3725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW 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 2019-06-22 08:50:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-22 09:05:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 46 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.674 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 319 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 0.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600044l0 Id of event.
Event Code 600044l0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600044l0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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