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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Glen Elder in Kansas

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Earthquake location 39.4775S, -98.2987WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Glen Elder in Kansas on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us6000pz39. Event ids that are associated: us6000pz39. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.2987 West, latitude 39.4775 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/03/25 / 2025-03-15 23:21:30 / March 15, 2025 @ 11:21 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:21:30 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concordia (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 2 km SSE of Glen Elder, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SSE of Glen Elder, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-15 23:21:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-16 00:24:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 129 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us6000pz39 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pz39 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pz39, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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