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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Marion in Kansas

Posted by admin on January 29, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3976S, -96.8965WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Marion in Kansas on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 05:45:22 / January 29, 2020 @ 5:45 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:45:22 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60007itu. Event ids that are associated: us60007itu. Exact location, longitude -96.8965° West, latitude 38.3976° North, depth = 5 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Emporia (c. 24 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Junction City (c. 23 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Newton (c. 19 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from El Dorado (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Park City, Valley Center, Junction City (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km ENE of Marion, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3976° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ENE of Marion, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-29 05:45:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 06:10:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 0.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us60007itu Id of event.
Event Code 60007itu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007itu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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