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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 13 km N of Ellis, Kansas


Earthquake location 39.0569S, -99.5315WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ellis in Kansas. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006q0f. Unique identifier: us10006q0f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:55:19 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/09/16 / 2016-09-16 03:55:19 / September 16, 2016 @ 3:55 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -99.5315 West, latitude 39.0569 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (16 miles) from Hays (c. 20 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km N of Ellis, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.5315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0569° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km N of Ellis, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-16 03:55:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-16 04:11:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 148 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 0.29 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 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 us10006q0f Id of event.
Event Code 10006q0f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006q0f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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