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

Posted by admin on September 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.2355S, -99.4029WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Plainville in Kansas on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 07:11:49 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70005den. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005den. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/19 / 2019-09-08 13:11:49 / September 8, 2019 @ 1:11 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -99.4029° West, 39.2355° North, depth 5 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hays (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 9 km W of Plainville, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.4029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W 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 2019-09-08 13:11:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-08 13:25:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 130 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 0.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us70005den Id of event.
Event Code 70005den An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005den, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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