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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Herington in Kansas

Posted by admin on March 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.7616S, -97.0475WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Herington in Kansas. Global time and date of event 24/03/20 / 2020-03-24 21:31:40 / March 24, 2020 @ 9:31 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.0475° West, latitude 38.7616° North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008fcs. Unique identifier: us70008fcs. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:31:40 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Manhattan (c. 52 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Salina (c. 47 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Junction City (c. 23 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fort Riley North (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was McPherson, Manhattan, Salina (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NW of Herington, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.0475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7616° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NW of Herington, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-24 21:31:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-24 21:48:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 168 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 0.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us70008fcs Id of event.
Event Code 70008fcs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008fcs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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