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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Luray in Kansas

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Earthquake location 39.2318S, -98.6308WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Luray in Kansas. Event id: us7000pmeb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pmeb. The temblor was reported at 00:18:37 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.786 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 00:18:37 / March 25, 2025 @ 12:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 9.786 km, -98.6308° West, 39.2318° North.

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hays (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 14 km NNE of Luray, Kansas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.6308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.786 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km NNE 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 2025-03-25 00:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-25 00:27:35 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000pmeb Id of event.
Event Code 7000pmeb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pmeb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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