Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Danville in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.2329S, -97.949WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Danville in Kansas. Global time and date of event 19/09/24 / 2024-09-19 04:43:00 / September 19, 2024 @ 4:43 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000nszl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nszl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.949 West, latitude 37.2329 North, depth = 4.905 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:43:00 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.905 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pratt, Arkansas City, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SW of Danville, Kansas.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.905 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SW of Danville, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-19 04:43:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-19 04:58:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 180 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us6000nszl Id of event.
Event Code 6000nszl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nszl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply