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

Posted by admin on September 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.6353S, -97.9853WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Beloit in Kansas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 10:50:32 / September 29, 2019 @ 10:50 am. Event id: us70005nnf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005nnf. Exact location of earthquake, -97.9853° West, 39.6353° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:50:32 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Concordia (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Concordia.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9853° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6353° 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 2019-09-29 10:50:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 22:27:42 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 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 1.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 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 us70005nnf Id of event.
Event Code 70005nnf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nnf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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