Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Salina in Kansas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Salina in Kansas. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5179 West, latitude 38.8436 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 26/01/19 / 2019-01-26 06:20:58 / January 26, 2019 @ 6:20 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000j94l. Event ids that are associated: us2000j94l. The temblor was detected at 00:20:58 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Salina (c. 47 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Junction City (c. 23 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from McPherson (c. 13 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Fort Riley North (c. 7 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Abilene (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort Riley North, Junction City, McPherson (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km E of Salina, Kansas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.5179° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km E of Salina, Kansas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-26 06:20:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-26 06:29:35	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	2.2	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	0.753	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us2000j94l	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j94l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j94l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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