Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Freeport in Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Freeport in Kansas. Event id: us6000ca9q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ca9q. The temblor was picked up at 19:44:06 / 7:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 19:44:06 / October 20, 2020 @ 7:44 pm. Exact location of event, depth 4.53 km, -97.9243° West, 37.208° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.53 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wichita, Blackwell, Derby (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km W of Freeport, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.9243° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.208° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km W of Freeport, Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-20 19:44:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-21 01:04:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	0.041	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us6000ca9q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ca9q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ca9q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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