Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Harper in Kansas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Harper in Kansas. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 05:04:30 / December 17, 2016 @ 5:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -97.8755 West, latitude 37.2586 North, depth = 3.77 km. Unique identifier: us200081tf. Ids that are associated to the event: us200081tf. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.77 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:04:30 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Wichita, Derby.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8755° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2586° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km ESE 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	2016-12-17 05:04:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-17 05:16:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	121	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	0.017	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us200081tf	Id of event.
Event Code	200081tf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200081tf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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