Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Phillipsburg in Kansas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 14 km SSE of Phillipsburg, Kansas (9 miles) on Thursday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:24:38 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 03:24:38 / January 17, 2020 @ 3:24 am. Exact location, longitude -99.2366° West, latitude 39.64° North, depth = 5 km. Event id: us700071g4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700071g4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SSE of Phillipsburg, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-99.2366° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.64° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSE of Phillipsburg, Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-17 03:24:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-17 03:41:33	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	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	121	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	0.912	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us700071g4	Id of event.
Event Code	700071g4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071g4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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