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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Harper in Kansas


Earthquake location 37.2711S, -97.8505WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Harper in Kansas. Event id: us10006318. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006318. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/16 / 2016-07-12 18:54:26 / July 12, 2016 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:54:26 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.8505° West, 37.2711° North, depth 12.25 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.25 km (8 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winfield, Arkansas City, Valley Center (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km E of Harper, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8505° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km E 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 2016-07-12 18:54:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-12 21:44:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10006318 Id of event.
Event Code 10006318 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006318, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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