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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 17 km WNW of Harper, Kansas


Earthquake location 37.354S, -98.2036WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Harper in Kansas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 18:35:34 / June 26, 2016 @ 6:35 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000670a. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000670a. Exact location of earthquake, -98.2036° West, 37.354° North, depth 5 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:35:34 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hutchinson, Haysville, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Hutchinson (c. 42 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Pratt (c. 6 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km WNW of Harper, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2036° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WNW of Harper, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-26 18:35:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-26 18:48:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 178 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 0.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us2000670a Id of event.
Event Code 2000670a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000670a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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