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Earthquake 3 mag, 11 km WNW of Parsons, Kansas


Earthquake location 37.3854S, -95.3831WAn earthquake with magnitude 3 mg/mb has occurred in 11 km WNW of Parsons, Kansas. Time of event: Wednesday 1st October @ 12:33 am UTC. Location of event: -95.3831S, 37.3854W, depth=5 km. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about quake recorded in: 11 km WNW of Parsons, Kansas. Did you feel it? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country.


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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.3831° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW of Parsons, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-10-01 00:33:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-10-01 00:48:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 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 140 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 1.016 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 usb000shje Id of event.
Event Code b000shje An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usb000shje A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

2 Comments

  1. perry

    I was with friends inside a House in Parsons and we all felt the earthquake.

  2. Todd

    We heard it and barely felt it here on the west side of Joplin, MO. At first sounded like distant rolling thunder… But we realized there were no storms in the area!

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