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


Earthquake location 39.6377S, -97.996WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Beloit in Kansas. Event id: us60004zlg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004zlg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:55:48 / 8:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.996° West, 39.6377° North, depth 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/19 / 2019-08-02 14:55:48 / August 2, 2019 @ 2:55 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concordia (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km NNE of Beloit, Kansas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.996° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNE of Beloit, Kansas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-02 14:55:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-05 09:53:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us60004zlg Id of event.
Event Code 60004zlg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004zlg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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