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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Plainville in Kansas

Posted by admin on July 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.2645S, -99.4755WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Plainville in Kansas on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -99.4755 West, latitude 39.2645 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 03:40:49 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70004avj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004avj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 09:40:49 / July 5, 2019 @ 9:40 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 15 km WNW of Plainville, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.4755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW 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 2019-07-05 09:40:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-05 09:56:21 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 0.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us70004avj Id of event.
Event Code 70004avj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004avj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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