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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Mankato in Kansas


Earthquake location 39.7487S, -98.1501WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Mankato in Kansas on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 13.92 km, -98.1501° West, 39.7487° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.92 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/04/17 / 2017-04-06 16:01:43 / April 6, 2017 @ 4:01 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008f8q. Unique identifier: us10008f8q. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:01:43 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concordia. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 6 km SE of Mankato, 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 -98.1501° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7487° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE of Mankato, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-06 16:01:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-06 16:19:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 140 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 1.122 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10008f8q Id of event.
Event Code 10008f8q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008f8q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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