Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Wellington in Kansas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Wellington in Kansas. The temblor was reported at 09:01:16 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.5728° West, 37.2343° North, depth 2.88 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.88 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 27/08/17 / 2017-08-27 15:01:16 / August 27, 2017 @ 3:01 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000ac9f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ac9f.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Augusta, Valley Center. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km W of Wellington, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5728° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2343° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km W of Wellington, Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-27 15:01:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-27 15:44:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	130	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	0.015	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us2000ac9f	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ac9f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ac9f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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