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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Conway Springs in Kansas

Posted by admin on April 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.3505S, -97.6777WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Conway Springs in Kansas. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:30:39 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.99 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000dt2z. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dt2z. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 22:30:39 / April 26, 2018 @ 10:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -97.6777 West, latitude 37.3505 North, depth = 8.99 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Andover (c. 11 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Augusta, Blackwell, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SW of Conway Springs, Kansas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6777° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SW of Conway Springs, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-26 22:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-26 23:09:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 0.064 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 62 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 us1000dt2z Id of event.
Event Code 1000dt2z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dt2z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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