Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Luray in Kansas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Luray in Kansas. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:35:00 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/25 / 2025-03-17 09:35:00 / March 17, 2025 @ 9:35 am. Event id: us6000pzai. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pzai. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7019° West, 39.0627° North, depth 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Great Bend, Hays (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Great Bend (c. 16 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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.

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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. 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: 5 km SSW of Luray, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7019° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0627° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSW of Luray, Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-17 09:35:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-17 09:49:34	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	138	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	0.639	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us6000pzai	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzai	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzai,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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