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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 7 km NNE of Harper, Kansas


Earthquake location 37.3491S, -97.9915WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Harper in Kansas. The temblor was reported at 05:55:38 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/11/18 / 2018-11-18 11:55:38 / November 18, 2018 @ 11:55 am. Exact location of earthquake, -97.9915° West, 37.3491° North, depth 3.66 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000htiy. Id of event: us1000htiy. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.66 km (2 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Wichita (c. 382 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pratt (c. 6 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Valley Center, Pratt, Wichita.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km NNE of Harper, Kansas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9915° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3491° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNE 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 2018-11-18 11:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-18 12:10:57 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 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 0.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us1000htiy Id of event.
Event Code 1000htiy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000htiy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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