A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Beloit in Kansas. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.9991 West, latitude 39.6017 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005n9i. Id of event: us70005n9i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:45:39 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 23:45:39 / September 28, 2019 @ 11:45 pm UTC/GMT.
The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concordia (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km NNE of Beloit, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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