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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 15 km N of Ellis, Kansas


Earthquake location 39.0744S, -99.5522WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ellis in Kansas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10006q09. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006q09. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:58:28 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -99.5522° West, 39.0744° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/16 / 2016-09-16 02:58:28 / September 16, 2016 @ 2:58 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hays (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 29 km (18 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 15 km N of Ellis, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.5522° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 02:58:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-16 03:21:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 173 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 0.297 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10006q09 Id of event.
Event Code 10006q09 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006q09, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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