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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 2 km SSE of Medicine Lodge, Kansas


Earthquake location 37.2641S, -98.5682WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Medicine Lodge in Kansas. The temblor was picked up at 17:14:15 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.5682° West, latitude 37.2641° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10008dzl. Event ids that are associated: us10008dzl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/04/17 / 2017-04-02 23:14:15 / April 2, 2017 @ 11:14 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pratt (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Pratt (c. 6 800 pop).

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

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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: 2 km SSE of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.5682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSE of Medicine Lodge, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-02 23:14:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-02 23:30:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 0.456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10008dzl Id of event.
Event Code 10008dzl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008dzl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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